girls:
557 births since 1934
#5159 (10th percentile)
boys:
17.7k births since 1927
#863 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.3k births since 1927
#1902 (75th percentile)
The name Rusty is the #1,902 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,266 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 75.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #863 (81.2% percentile) for all time with 17,709 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #5,159 (9.7% percentile) for all time with 557 births since 1934.
Rusty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1934 for girls). Birth data for Rusty is available in 91 out of the 97 years between 1927 and 2023 (91 years for boys and 47 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 Rusty has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rusty reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 52.7% percentile (ranked #326) with 290 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 290 births per million (ranked 52.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rusty ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 7.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rusty reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #762) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rusty".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rusty is pronounced as RUH-stee, which has 2 syllables.
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