Dusti
#10,311 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dusti has been given to 1,824 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #10,311 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 94 recorded.
Babies named Dusti, 2025
1 in 368,000
Dusti over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dusti?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,311
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dusti sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dusti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dustis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dusti was born before 1983 — so the typical Dusti is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 32.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,815
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (595).
Is Dusti 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +176
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −649
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.82×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.6%
- Peak was 1980 (94)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.0% average annual change
Spellings of Dusti
Dusti is not the most common spelling — Misti is, with 27.7% against Dusti's 6.0%.
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 Dusti is used
Across 1910–2025, Dusti was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 151,845 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Dusti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dusti by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Dusti
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dusti
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.