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Dusty

As a gender-neutral name, Dusty traces back to Old Norse, where it is understood to mean "Old Norse Thorsteinn, Thor's stone". It was at its most popular in the 1980s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. Its single strongest year on record was 1981.

EtymologyDiminutive of Dustin
Old NorseOld Norse "Thorsteinn" – "Thor's stone"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
11
1930s
5
1940s
198
1950s
877
1960s
1,026
1970s
3,401
1980s
5,248
1990s
2,383
2000s
1,125
2010s
464
Peaked in the 1980s · 14,738 total U.S. births since 1900