Meaning not yet researched.
Kingston: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,725 in 2025. Its best rank was #112 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #112 in 2021; #204 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kingston in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#204 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #112.
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Kingston: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,725 boys in 2025. Peak: #112 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 3,410 (2021).
In 2025, 1,725 US boys were named Kingston, making it the 204th most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #177 in 2024. That is 369 fewer than the 2,094 boys named Kingston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #112, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,410. For comparison, it was #142 in 2015 and #3,514 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kingston in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 46,599 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 25,770 babies named Kingston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 28,781 US boys were named Kingston; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 3,410. In 2025 that was about 1 in 990 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kingston ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #48 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 6 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyngston (977 babies since 1880), Kingsten (798 babies since 1880) and Kingstyn (666 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kingstin, Kingstan and Kyngsten are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to King.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kingstin (317), Kingstan (68), Kyngsten (63), Kyngstyn (17), Kingstun (15), Kingzton (13), Kengston (12), Kingstynn (12), Kyngstin (5).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 44 | #48 | #13 |
| South Carolina | 70 | #71 | #22 |
| Arkansas | 39 | #79 | #88 |
| Louisiana | 55 | #87 | #45 |
| Kentucky | 55 | #97 | #129 |
| Alabama | 53 | #100 | #52 |
| Georgia | 103 | #113 | #64 |
| West Virginia | 16 | #126 | #143 |
| Ohio | 104 | #132 | #139 |
| Tennessee | 73 | #132 | #71 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #137 | #48 |
| Missouri | 46 | #153 | #134 |
| Montana | 9 | #154 | #137 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #164 | #196 |
| Kansas | 23 | #169 | #174 |
| Indiana | 50 | #171 | #120 |
| Oklahoma | 29 | #172 | #96 |
| Maryland | 34 | #179 | #165 |
| North Carolina | 68 | #187 | #121 |
| Michigan | 56 | #188 | #181 |
| Texas | 199 | #193 | #158 |
| Virginia | 41 | #218 | #116 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #220 | #133 |
| Delaware | 5 | #229 | — |
| Florida | 89 | #237 | #145 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #238 | #112 |
| Idaho | 11 | #242 | #210 |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #253 | #134 |
| Illinois | 44 | #257 | #203 |
| Iowa | 15 | #271 | #143 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #290 | #438 |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | #301 | #265 |
| Washington | 25 | #303 | #174 |
| Arizona | 24 | #328 | #201 |
| Oregon | 12 | #340 | #215 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #362 | #174 |
| California | 93 | #373 | #194 |
| Nevada | 8 | #376 | #149 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #381 | #214 |
| New York | 44 | #396 | #313 |
| Utah | 12 | #396 | #169 |
| Colorado | 15 | #410 | #278 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #424 | #286 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #477 | #363 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #539 | #310 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,725 | #204 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,417 | 2,094 | #177 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,833 | 2,534 | #142 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,750 | 2,922 | #127 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,740 | 3,410 | #112 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,725 | 3,182 | #118 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,145 | 3,295 | #117 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,262 | 3,383 | #117 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,185 | 3,087 | #132 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,790 | 3,149 | #132 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,833 | 2,971 | #142 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,873 | 2,602 | #159 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,340 | 2,130 | #190 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,789 | 1,778 | #210 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,454 | 1,579 | #228 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,151 | 1,677 | #214 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,106 | 1,613 | #225 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,802 | 1,535 | #241 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,262 | 893 | #355 |
| 2006 | — | — | 204 | #929 |
| 2005 | — | — | 85 | #1,610 |
| 2004 | — | — | 58 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,454 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,987 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,841 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,781 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,906 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,151 |
| 1997 | — | — | 32 | #2,523 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,487 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,260 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,424 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,012 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,024 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,934 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,207 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,614 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,479 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,640 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,679 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,946 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,000 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,893 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,041 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,749 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,016 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,889 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,301 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,503 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,957 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,514 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,014 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,043 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,559 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,328 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,769 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,794 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,066 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,113 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,495 |
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).