Dustin comes from an English surname that was derived from the Old Norse given name Þórsteinn. It means ‘Thor’s stone’, referring to Thor, god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology.
Dustin is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Dustin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Dustin ranks 491. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Dustin. In the entire USA, approximately 205,765 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Dustin. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
This was a real surprise! Dustin is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #41 in the year 1985, when 10,525 parents chose this name for their newborn son. This made Dustin much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this boys' name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dustin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Dustin ranked 593 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn boys a total of 436 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Dustin will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Dustin is one of them. However, Dustin is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Wyoming seem to particularly fancy this name – the 786 men called Dustin who live here are 0,325% of all male residents and push their name up to #72 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Wyoming. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 205,765 people with the name Dustin. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Dustin on position 170 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Dustin is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dustin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dustin, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dustin sounds like this:
