Dusty

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dusty: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dusty: Recorded since 2001, it reached #860 in 2021, and it stood at #1,743 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#860highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2004	#3725
2007	#5201
2011	#5785
2012	#3681
2013	#4050
2014	#2464
2015	#4736
2016	#4763
2017	#3583
2018	#2340
2019	#1634
2020	#1267
2021	#860
2022	#1556
2023	#1255
2024	#1743

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 17 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #3998 among girls in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2001–2024
Highest recorded position: #860 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 2001–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Dusty appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 205 births with the name.

Dusty across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dusty's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#860 (2021)	#1743 (2024)	17 of 24	205 (2001–2024)	41 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#4810 (2016)	#2813 (2023)	#3688 (2024)	7 of 9	34 (2016–2024)	7 (2023)

Dusty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dusty in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	10	3 of 10	3
2010s	67	9 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	128	5 of 10	26

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dusty appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #860 in England and Wales in 2021.

Dusty's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1743	17	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1255	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#860	41	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1267	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2001 and 2024, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #860, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Duru · #3447, 13y
Dustin · #322, 18y
Dwain · #222, 12y
Dwaine · #222, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Inaayah · #860, 21y
Myla-Rose · #860, 15y
Poppy-Mae · #859, 22y
Abdul-Hadi · #857, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Inaayah · #860, 21y
Amia · #862, 23y
Ava-Marie · #862, 17y
Iulia · #862, 16y

Dusty was ranked #860 in England and Wales · Girls in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dusty and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dusty without appearing here.

Dusty moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4736 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1267 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1634 and #5591.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #5666.
Kim Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Dusty

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2464 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #2705.
Eabha Compare
In 2021 they stood at #860 and #1069 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1556 and #1180.

Moved the opposite way to Dusty

Abigail Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 while Aisling went from #514 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 while Alex went from #172 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dusty

Ada Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 and Ada from #1520 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 and Alma from #1728 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 and Amalie from #3998 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dusty went from #3998 to #1743 and Amelia from #32 to #2.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #860 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dusty

Dusty at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dusty across 2 official records

Dusty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dusty appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Dusty at a glance

Dusty across 2 official records

Dusty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dusty appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Dusty

Dusty and the names beside it

Dusty moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Dusty

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