Meaning and history
Originally a nickname for someone who broke things, it comes from bust, a dialectal variant of burst. A well-known bearer was the American silent film star Buster Keaton (1895–1966), whose real first name was Joseph.
20062006: 6 births, rank #10,662
2007: 13 births, rank #6,262
2008: 11 births, rank #7,187
2009: 8 births, rank #8,985
2010: 11 births, rank #7,087
20112011: 14 births, rank #5,945
2012: 11 births, rank #7,050
2013: 12 births, rank #6,603
2014: 18 births, rank #5,066
2015: 17 births, rank #5,289
20162016: 13 births, rank #6,349
2017: 13 births, rank #6,338
2018: 10 births, rank #7,617
2019: 12 births, rank #6,777
2020: 11 births, rank #7,034
20212021: 7 births, rank #9,714
2022: 21 births, rank #4,701
2023: 12 births, rank #6,897
2024: 13 births, rank #6,469
20252025: 12 births, rank #6,803
Buster rose from #925 to #890 for boys between 1956 and 1957. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 246 births.