Meaning not yet researched.
Langston: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 227 in 2025. Its best rank was #652 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #652 in 2016; #1,000 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Langston in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,000 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #652.
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Langston: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 227 boys in 2025. Peak: #652 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 405 (2016).
In 2025, 227 US boys were named Langston, making it the 1,000th most common boys’ name of the year, down 90 places from #910 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 257 boys named Langston in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #652, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 405. For comparison, it was #689 in 2015 and #2,680 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Langston in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 7,664 US babies have been given the name, 4.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,161 babies named Langston.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,293 US boys were named Langston; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 405. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,525 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Langston ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #411 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Langstyn and Langsten are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Langstyn (23), Langsten (6).
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 Langston 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 11 | #411 | #468 |
| Missouri | 11 | #543 | #506 |
| Alabama | 9 | #550 | #667 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #553 | — |
| Georgia | 19 | #554 | #367 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #604 | #380 |
| Virginia | 12 | #610 | #650 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #641 | #463 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #655 | #396 |
| Kansas | 5 | #658 | #411 |
| Ohio | 13 | #695 | #883 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #807 | #432 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #848 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #886 | #1,113 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,034 | #605 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,169 | #1,240 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,205 | #741 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,330 | #711 |
| New York | 8 | #1,365 | #847 |
| California | 11 | #1,548 | #804 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,609 | 227 | #1,000 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,470 | 257 | #910 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,798 | 261 | #892 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,854 | 320 | #789 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,471 | 343 | #743 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,753 | 367 | #694 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,874 | 379 | #679 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,272 | 359 | #682 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,272 | 375 | #677 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,308 | 405 | #652 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,608 | 365 | #689 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,559 | 317 | #748 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,298 | 209 | #958 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,646 | 170 | #1,099 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,632 | 177 | #1,065 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,920 | 180 | #1,078 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,883 | 172 | #1,080 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,515 | 187 | #1,027 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,894 | 142 | #1,240 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,247 | 98 | #1,531 |
| 2005 | — | — | 111 | #1,357 |
| 2004 | — | — | 86 | #1,545 |
| 2003 | — | — | 96 | #1,396 |
| 2002 | — | — | 88 | #1,454 |
| 2001 | — | — | 82 | #1,493 |
| 2000 | — | — | 72 | #1,632 |
| 1999 | — | — | 66 | #1,636 |
| 1998 | — | — | 66 | #1,592 |
| 1997 | — | — | 73 | #1,475 |
| 1996 | — | — | 43 | #2,038 |
| 1995 | — | — | 66 | #1,471 |
| 1994 | — | — | 54 | #1,685 |
| 1993 | — | — | 53 | #1,674 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,560 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,817 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,924 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,391 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,072 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,903 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,572 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,024 |
| 1984 | — | — | 21 | #2,406 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,859 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,918 |
| 1981 | — | — | 29 | #1,928 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,797 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,850 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,032 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,320 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,228 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,806 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,413 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,138 |
| 1972 | — | — | 24 | #1,854 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,175 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,809 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,492 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,004 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,295 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,275 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,169 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,611 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,852 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,006 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,083 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,446 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,070 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,791 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,888 |
| 1955 | — | — | 11 | #2,501 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,859 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,280 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,213 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,224 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,680 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,794 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,788 |
| 1947 | — | — | 20 | #1,714 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,992 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,824 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,787 |
| 1943 | — | — | 12 | #2,233 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,618 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,010 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,305 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,368 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,569 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,054 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,798 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,976 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,872 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,746 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,074 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,898 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,522 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,257 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,039 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,389 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,323 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,404 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,120 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,287 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,969 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,630 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,499 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,127 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,525 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,747 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,430 |
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).