Guilty Pleasure Name and Alternative Choice

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I want to preface this by saying...I am not pregnant, nor do I plan to become pregnant in the foreseeable future, so these name are all for hypothetical children.

I have two names picked out for girls that I have my heart set on using: Colleen Bess and Ruth Marie. They are names that I have picked because they have special meaning to me. I also have a long list of girls names that I like if I needed more than two girls names, and a few guilty pleasure names. One such guilty pleasure name is Dusty (more specifically, Dusty Rose). I had a volunteer once named Dusty and I thought the name was cute and worked for her, but while I liked it...I'm not sure it's one that I'd ever really use.

On the other hand, I have a hard time with names for boys. I'm picky when it comes to popularity of names (it comes from being an Amanda in the 80s), so if a name is too popular or seems like it is becoming too popular, it looses it's appeal to me. My #1 boys name for quite awhile was Justin, but...I feel it's too popular (anything in the Top 100 is "too popular" for my taste).

Today I came up with the idea to combine one of my guilty pleasures and one of my favorite boys names and come up with a boys name I would actually use. That being said...what do you think of the name Dustin for a boy, with the nn Dusty?