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Dusten

Boys' name

Possibly Thor's stone, through Dustin

Dusten has been given to 1,374 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Dusten, 2024

1 in 557,000

Dusten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dusten: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Thor's stone, through Dustin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dusten means

Dusten belongs to the name family reached through Dusten → Dustin. Its meaning is “Thor's stone”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dusten is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dustin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dusten is pronounced /ˈdʌstən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,374 boys were recorded with the name Dusten between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,149 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dusten?

Dusten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dusten sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dusten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dustens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dusten was born before 1988 — so the typical Dusten is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (541).

Is Dusten rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (66)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,149
1985

Spellings of Dusten

Dusten is not the most common spelling — Justin is, with 52.4% against Dusten's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dusten is used

Across 1910–2025, Dusten was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 476,922 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dusten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dusten around the world

Where Dusten ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #1,945
    in 1997

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dusten by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,149
1985
Peak year
1985
66 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,374
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dusten

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DustynAshtenDustonDustanWittenWestenEastenJaxtenTaytenBraxtenJustenDaxtenKristenHoltenLaytenCarstenTorstenKoltenPaxtenDustyTatenKarstenTrentenDayten

Sibling names for Dusten

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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