Meaning not yet researched.
Alston: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #860 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #860 in 1894; #5,617 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alston in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,617 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #860.
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Alston: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #860 in 1894 · most boys in one year: 70 (2017).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Alston, making it the 5,617th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,819 places from #3,798 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 29 boys named Alston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #860, reached in 1894. The most boys given the name in a single year was 70, in 2017. For comparison, it was #2,277 in 2015 and #2,324 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alston in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 7 babies. In all, 2,600 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 600 babies named Alston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 414 US boys were named Alston; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Allston are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Allston (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alston in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 16 | #5,617 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,798 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,892 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,154 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,428 |
| 2020 | — | — | 39 | #2,982 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,919 | 57 | #2,367 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,473 |
| 2017 | — | — | 70 | #2,015 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,230 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,277 |
| 2014 | — | — | 66 | #2,098 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,023 |
| 2012 | — | — | 68 | #2,037 |
| 2011 | — | — | 52 | #2,405 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,733 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,530 |
| 2008 | — | — | 57 | #2,293 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,473 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,467 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,492 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,428 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,251 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,681 |
| 2000 | — | — | 47 | #2,138 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,776 | 47 | #2,025 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,237 | 59 | #1,721 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,830 | 60 | #1,657 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,740 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,649 |
| 1994 | — | — | 55 | #1,643 |
| 1993 | — | — | 38 | #2,091 |
| 1992 | — | — | 31 | #2,363 |
| 1991 | — | — | 35 | #2,096 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #1,969 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,619 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,601 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,204 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,658 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,712 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,533 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,516 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,291 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,865 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,624 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,360 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,808 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,143 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,099 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,816 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,848 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,123 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #3,972 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,935 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,242 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,683 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,239 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,788 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,860 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,047 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,187 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,041 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,822 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,827 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,363 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,206 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,318 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,149 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,385 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,248 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,324 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,609 |
| 1948 | — | — | 15 | #1,945 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,504 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,272 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,812 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #2,967 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,714 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,143 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,181 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,054 |
| 1938 | — | — | 13 | #1,982 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,204 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,157 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #2,959 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,269 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,095 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #1,998 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,656 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,756 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,005 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #1,961 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,039 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,303 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,810 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,045 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,225 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,767 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,634 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,513 |
| 1918 | — | — | 22 | #1,597 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,529 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,155 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,880 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,869 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,278 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,278 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #860 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).