Kingston — #178 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kingston

The Social Security Administration has registered 44,628 babies named Kingston between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kingston currently holds the #178 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 3,404 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kingston performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 25,633 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Kingston shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,224 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kingston in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kingston in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 44,628 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.