girls:
4.4k births since 1944
#2556 (55th percentile)
boys:
10.6k births since 1927
#1130 (75th percentile)
overall:
15k births since 1927
#2137 (72nd percentile)
The name Dusty is the #2,137 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,044 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 72.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,130 (75.4% percentile) for all time with 10,601 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #2,556 (55.3% percentile) for all time with 4,443 births since 1944.
Dusty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1944 for girls). Birth data for Dusty is available in 85 out of the 97 years between 1927 and 2023 (85 years for boys and 80 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dusty has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 70.2% of babies named Dusty were boys.
For boys, Dusty reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 55.5% percentile (ranked #304) with 323 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 323 births per million (ranked 55.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dusty ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dusty reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 34.8% percentile (ranked #512) with 162 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 179 births per million (ranked 34.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dusty ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 4.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dusty".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dusty is pronounced as DUH-stee, which has 2 syllables.
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