Dustin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages (very rarely also given to women)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʌstɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dustin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 4K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 565 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name from the Germanic languages (very rarely also given to women).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dustin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Dustin | 33 |
| US United States | #398 | 171,388 | 1 in 1.9K | 171K | Dustin | 565 |
| DE Germany | #748 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Dustin | 176 |
| CA Canada | #507 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 9 | Dustin | 233 |
| GB United Kingdom | #852 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 4 | Dustin | 142 |
| SG Singapore | #545 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Dustin | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | #509 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 10 | Dustin | 50 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dustin Hoffmanb. 1937USAmerican actor (born 1937)
- Dustin Nguyễnb. 1962USVietnamese-American actor and filmmaker
- Dustin Rhodesb. 1969USAmerican professional wrestler
- Dustin O'Halloranb. 1971USAmerican musician
- Dustin Lance Blackb. 1974USAmerican screenwriter, director and producer
- Dustin Diamondb. 1977USAmerican actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian (1977–2021)
- Dustin Clareb. 1982AUAustralian actor
- Dustin Moskovitzb. 1984USAmerican computer/Internet entrepreneur
- Dustin Milliganb. 1985CACanadian actor
- Dustin Poirierb. 1989USAmerican mixed martial artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 171K | #326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 615 | #326 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 365 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 30 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 9 | #482 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 4 | #614 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Dustin?
- In the etymology graph, Dusty is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Dustin mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from the Germanic languages (very rarely also given to women). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Dustin a male or female name?
- Dustin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Dustin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 171,388 people named Dustin in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Dustin compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dustin is the 398th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Dustin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 177 thousand people named Dustin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dustin.
- Where is Dustin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dustin is densest in the United States — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Dustin?
- A machine transcription gives /dʌstɪn/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Dustin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dustinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dustin” — the 398th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.