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Unisex name

Dusty

Dusty ranks #102 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 38 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #324 for dogs.
Dusty's popularity trend

Dusty's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2012.

0.1%0.2%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
38
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#102
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
−20
2014 → 2019
Gender split
61% male
39% female61% male

Gender split comes from 51 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Dusty mean?
2 syllables

Dusty is, most plainly, the everyday word for something covered in fine, dry powder. It also does double duty as a casual pet form of Dustin, a name that traces back through Old French to the Old Norse Thorsteinn, literally "Thor's stone."

Dusty has a rugged, sun-bleached charm, like a name pulled off a ranch gate. It suits a pet with a scrappy, outdoorsy streak, or simply one who never met a dirt pile they didn't love.

Where Dusty shows up

Cats named Dusty per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.13%
SeattleWA, US0.08%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%

Cat names like Dusty

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