Dastin
Germanic at root, the Polish spelling of Dustin: it goes back to the Old Norse Þorsteinn, Thor plus stone, "Thor's stone." Only a few hundred men in Poland carry it, and newborns named Dastin have all but stopped, so meeting one is memorable.
Dastin Pronunciation
Dastin is pronounced DAHS-teen (/ˈdastin/).
What Dastin means
Where Dastin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Dastin comes from Germanic roots, tracing back to the Old Norse Þorsteinn, a compound of Þórr, the thunder god, and steinn, meaning stone. Read literally, it says Thor's stone. Dastin is the Polish spelling of a name better known abroad as Dustin, and it reached wider audiences when the American actor Dustin Hoffman rose to fame in the 1960s.
Stone gives the name its ballast. A thunder god lends it force.
In Polish, the sense that settled onto Dastin is dzielny wojownik, a brave warrior. That reading came later, drawn out of the god's name and the hardness of the stone rather than from any word for soldier. The origin is quieter than the meaning suggests. A boy called Dastin carries a piece of Norse weather in his name whether he knows it or not.
You will find the spelling on a class register in Poland, sitting between more familiar entries, a foreign shape made local. It has no established name-day of its own and few variants to soften it. What it keeps is the old arithmetic underneath: Thor plus stone, thunder set against something that will not move.
How many people are named Dastin
1 in 73862 men in Poland is named Dastin. 289 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1782 among male names.
Dastin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Dastin as a middle name
Dastin is a first name for 289 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1323rd, between Daniele (37) and Deepak (37).
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#1321 César37
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#1322 Daniele37
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#1323 Dastin37
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#1324 Deepak37
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#1325 Duong37