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How popular is “Dusty” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dusty” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dusty” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dusty” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dusty” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dusty” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dusty” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dusty” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 5 8 -23%
1945 15 0.000005654 9 6 20%
1946 39 0.000012205 18 21 -8%
1947 39 0.000010826 17 22 -13%
1948 36 0.000010427 9 27 -50%
1949 46 0.0000132 10 36 -57%
1950 54 0.000015414 13 41 -52%
1951 58 0.000015745 17 41 -41%
1952 61 0.000016061 15 46 -51%
1953 72 0.000018684 20 52 -44%
1954 123 0.000030899 34 89 -45%
1955 87 0.000021668 9 78 -79%
1956 111 0.000026922 21 90 -62%
1957 99 0.000023559 10 89 -80%
1958 101 0.000024432 13 88 -74%
1959 111 0.000026696 18 93 -68%
1960 103 0.000024796 13 90 -75%
1961 92 0.00002221 18 74 -61%
1962 85 0.000021064 14 71 -67%
1963 77 0.000019453 12 65 -69%
1964 94 0.000024179 24 70 -49%
1965 97 0.000026755 20 77 -59%
1966 87 0.000025031 26 61 -40%
1967 98 0.000028867 41 57 -16%
1968 109 0.000032264 38 71 -30%
1969 184 0.000052945 71 113 -23%
1970 241 0.000066824 103 138 -15%
1971 230 0.000067009 111 119 -3%
1972 278 0.000088451 143 135 3%
1973 283 0.000093805 148 135 5%
1974 299 0.000098355 134 165 -10%
1975 354 0.000117242 206 148 16%
1976 459 0.00015127 281 178 22%
1977 430 0.000135369 241 189 12%
1978 438 0.000138002 212 226 -3%
1979 387 0.000116321 194 193 0%
1980 784 0.000227609 289 495 -26%
1981 830 0.000239928 229 601 -45%
1982 631 0.000179877 114 517 -64%
1983 438 0.000126468 129 309 -41%
1984 422 0.00012096 90 332 -57%
1985 446 0.000124961 94 352 -58%
1986 445 0.000125103 67 378 -70%
1987 506 0.000140337 101 405 -60%
1988 438 0.000118537 83 355 -62%
1989 308 0.000080116 59 249 -62%
1990 304 0.000076914 55 249 -64%
1991 223 0.000057249 53 170 -52%
1992 175 0.000045558 32 143 -63%
1993 263 0.000069756 54 209 -59%
1994 325 0.000087421 66 259 -59%
1995 283 0.000077277 60 223 -58%
1996 236 0.000064707 42 194 -64%
1997 224 0.00006178 46 178 -59%
1998 180 0.000048937 52 128 -42%
1999 170 0.000046022 39 131 -54%
2000 155 0.000041006 37 118 -52%
2001 130 0.000034728 28 102 -57%
2002 122 0.000032635 20 102 -67%
2003 113 0.000029719 20 93 -65%
2004 114 0.000029836 21 93 -63%
2005 127 0.000033031 21 106 -67%
2006 97 0.000024519 13 84 -73%
2007 99 0.000024764 18 81 -64%
2008 81 0.000020607 13 68 -68%
2009 87 0.000022774 10 77 -77%
2010 75 0.000020294 15 60 -60%
2011 47 0.000012849 13 34 -45%
2012 66 0.000018046 17 49 -48%
2013 62 0.000017006 8 54 -74%
2014 56 0.000015109 14 42 -50%
2015 64 0.000017293 16 48 -50%
2016 52 0.000014174 14 38 -46%
2017 44 0.000012304 10 34 -55%
2018 46 0.000013083 16 30 -30%
2019 50 0.000014405 13 37 -48%
2020 53 0.000015866 15 38 -43%
2021 47 0.000013873 16 31 -32%
2022 64 0.000018917 19 45 -41%
2023 47 0.000014194 14 33 -40%
2024 43 0.000012919 17 26 -21%

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