Kearston
Kearston was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 430 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kearston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kearston?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,456, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1978, the peak
Kearston peaked in 1978, when 27 babies were given it (21 girls, #3,560 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,456 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,875 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,793 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,868 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,321 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,332 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,779 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,020 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,315 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,653 | 12.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #10,041 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,353 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,277 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,333 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,031 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,317 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,041 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,479 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,113 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,443 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,728 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,467 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,525 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,676 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,711 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,460 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,526 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,990 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,194 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,573 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,178 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,570 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,928 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,560 | 13.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kearston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 430 Americans recorded as Kearston, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kearston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kearston, and how old are they?
An estimated 421 Americans named Kearston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 409 people named Kearston (376 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 424 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,484 babies since 1880, Kearston is the seventh most given (5.7% of them).
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 Kearston
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 Kearston and names like it
- Compare Kearston and KerstinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKearston peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Kearston.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kearston alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.