How rare is the name Rusty?

13,378 people in the United States have the first name Rusty, about 1 in 22,577. It ranks #2,040 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RUSTY

#2,040

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,378
About
1 in 22,577
This common or more
78.2%
Who bears it

Of the 13,378 people named Rusty, 88.9% reported their origin as White, 3.5% as two or more races and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 96% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rusty peaked in 1961, when 576 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19272025
Peak year
1961
Births that year
576
In 2025*
58 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 18,367 babies have been given the name since 1927. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Rusty by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #827. The largest share of babies named Rusty, 33.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1920s#12,6708
1930s#6,22657
1940s#2,089482
1950s#9393,051
1960s#8274,338
1970s#8983,841
1980s#9683,874
1990s#2,0691,498
2000s#4,747598
2010s#6,833377
2020s#6,496243
Greatest Generation 1901–270%
Silent Generation 1928–451.1%
Baby boom 1946–6432.4%
Generation X 1965–8033.4%
Millennials 1981–9624.9%
Generation Z 1997–125.4%
2013 and later2.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Rusty is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rusty has been most common in Oklahoma (3.2×), Louisiana (2.6×), and Kansas (2.3×), and least common in Maryland (0.22×).

14,345 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Rusty

#2,038 Belen · 13,397#2,039 Linh · 13,392#2,041 Dayana · 13,375#2,042 Nehemiah · 13,359

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rusty, most common first.

#25,022 Rusti · 381

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