Heston
Heston was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,315 among boys’ names; 1,613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Heston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Heston mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Heston is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “brushwood” (hǣs) and “settlement” (tūn).
From Old English hǣs (“brushwood”) + tūn (“settlement”).
/ˈhɛstən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Heston?
#2,315 among boys’ names, 2025
Heston rose from #2,393 in 2015 to #2,315 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 28.2 to 35.1 per million.
78 babies in 2016, the peak
Heston peaked in 2016, when 78 boys were given it, #1,892 among boys’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,315 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,889 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,370 | 33.9 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,388 | 33.8 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,138 | 38.3 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,482 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,240 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,126 | 36.3 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,360 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 78 | #1,892 | 41.1 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,393 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,214 | 31.8 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,311 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,532 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,602 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,526 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,363 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,415 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,538 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,929 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,650 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,315 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,806 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,486 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,948 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,170 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,962 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,902 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,408 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,987 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,649 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,650 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,289 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,661 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,315 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,799 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,618 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,717 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,111 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,518 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,669 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,348 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,280 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,245 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,956 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,957 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,913 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,304 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,792 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,189 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,049 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,866 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,399 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,377 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,787 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,227 | 2.3 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,273 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,403 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,524 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,631 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,559 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,509 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,078 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Heston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heston has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heston, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,613 Americans ever recorded as Heston. The median Heston alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,209 people named Heston (16 women and girls, 1,193 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 521 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 765 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Heston born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,436 | 1.5× |
| Utah | 5 | #743 | 3.9× |
Where Heston is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heston is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Heston with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,023 babies since 1880, Heston is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 78 babies (77%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Heston
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Heston and names like it
- Compare Heston and HesstonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHeston peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heston since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Heston.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Heston alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.