Meaning not yet researched.
Kyngston: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,538 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,538 in 2020; #2,373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kyngston in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,373 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,538.
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Kyngston: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,538 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 108 (2020).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Kyngston, making it the 2,373rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 76 places from #2,297 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 62 boys named Kyngston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,538, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #3,003 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyngston in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 5 babies. In all, 977 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 501 babies named Kyngston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 817 US boys were named Kyngston; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyngston ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #730 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kingston (46,599 babies since 1880), Kingsten (798 babies since 1880) and Kingstyn (666 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Kyngston in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #730 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #995 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,185 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,989 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 58 | #2,373 |
| 2024 | — | — | 62 | #2,297 |
| 2023 | — | — | 74 | #2,039 |
| 2022 | — | — | 93 | #1,776 |
| 2021 | — | — | 106 | #1,610 |
| 2020 | — | — | 108 | #1,538 |
| 2019 | — | — | 107 | #1,571 |
| 2018 | — | — | 81 | #1,864 |
| 2017 | — | — | 74 | #1,948 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,400 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #3,003 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,427 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,134 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,160 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,443 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,306 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,298 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,557 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #13,542 |
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).