Dusty
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dusty is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Old English dūstig ‘dusty’; first attested Richard Dusty 1379 PTY.
- USUnited States1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 36K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 67K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 415 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
12,895 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old English dūstig ‘dusty’; first attested Richard Dusty 1379 PTY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dusty 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,895 | 1 in 26K | 9.1K | Dusty | 415 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Dusty | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 2 | Dusty | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | Dusty | 92 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Dusty | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Dusty | 8 |
| IE Ireland | #911 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Dusty | 8 |
| GA Gabon | #971 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Dusty | 4 |
12,895 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dusty is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Apparently a pet form, or in some cases a feminine form, of Dustin. As a girl’s name it was made familiar in the 1960s by the singer Dusty Springfield.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Covered with dust.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English: apparently a pet form, or in some cases a feminine form, of DUSTIN . As a female name it was made popular in the 1960s by the singer Dusty Springfield.
as a word
In enm, dusty, dust-covered
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dusty Millerb. 1868USAmerican baseball player (1868-1945)
- Dusty Andersonb. 1916USAmerican actress (1918-2007)
- Dusty Rhodesb. 1927USMajor League Baseball player (1927–2009)
- Dusty Hughesb. 1947GBBritish theatre director and director
- Dusty Hillb. 1949USAmerican bassist (1949-2021)
- Dusty Bakerb. 1949USAmerican retired baseball player and manager (born 1949)
- Dusty Johnsonb. 1976USAmerican politician (born 1976)
- Dusty Brownb. 1982USAmerican baseball player
- Dusty Jonasb. 1986USAmerican athletics competitor
- Dusty MancinelliCACanadian film director
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 does the name Dusty mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old English dūstig ‘dusty’; first attested Richard Dusty 1379 PTY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Dusty a male or female name?
- Dusty 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.
- What are other forms of the name Dusty?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Dustin.
- How common is the name Dusty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,895 people named Dusty in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Dusty compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Dusty is the 911th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Dusty have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Dusty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dusty.
What do you want to know about Dusty?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dustyThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dusty” — the 911th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.