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Dustie vs Dustyn

American parents have registered 2,733 Dustyns since 1880, against 932 Dusties. Dustyn is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dustie against Dustyn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dustie Dustyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Dustyn for 45 years and Dustie for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dustie Dustyn
Total US births 9322,733
Most in one year 58123
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 9002,600
Median age today 4229
Peak year 19801995
Best rank 1,863rd girls999th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,857th
First recorded 19681970
Girls / boys 921 / 1160 / 2,673

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dusties alive today are over 42; half the Dustyns are over 29. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dustie and Dustyn.