Baby name

FADING BOY · OLD NORSE-ENGLISH
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Dustin

/DUS · tin/


“Thor's stone”

Possibly from the Old Norse Torsten meaning Thor's stone, filtered through the Norman French as Thurstan. Popularized in the US by actor Dustin Hoffman.

dust

gentle

How it ages.

Peaked in the US in the 1980s-1990s; feels firmly of that era now.

The cultural moment.

Top 50 in the US from the late 1970s through the early 1990s; declining since.