Rusty
Rusty is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. Its best rank was 328th, in 1961.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1961576 births
- Best rank
- #328in 1961
- Since 1927
- 18,309people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,744 boys have been named Rusty in the United States since 1927, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 576 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 565 girls have also been given it, 3.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rusty | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 8 | |
| 1930s | 41 | |
| 1940s | 458 | |
| 1950s | 2,956 | |
| 1960s | 4,242 | |
| 1970s | 3,647 | |
| 1980s | 3,768 | |
| 1990s | 1,472 | |
| 2000s | 598 | |
| 2010s | 377 | |
| 2020s | 177 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Rusty was the 328th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Rusty
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bradpeak 1960
- Timothypeak 1959
- Timmothypeak 1960
- Joeypeak 1962
- Bretpeak 1959
- Michalepeak 1956
- Brienpeak 1963
- Greggorypeak 1963
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.