Ruston
#2,564 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ruston has been given to 962 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #2,564 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Ruston, 2025
1 in 63,800
Ruston 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ruston?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 63,800
- 52 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 32,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,564
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 44,191 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ruston 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 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rustons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruston was born before 2005 — so the typical Ruston is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 25.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 957
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (249).
Is Ruston 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
- +473
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +691
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,488
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (52)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.3% average annual change
Spellings of Ruston
Ruston is not the most common spelling — Justin is, with 42.0% against Ruston's 0.05%.
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 Ruston is used
Across 1910–2025, Ruston was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 124,769 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Mississippi1 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. Ruston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ruston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ruston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ruston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.