Kingston
Kingston was given to 1,725 boys in 2025, #204 among boys’ names; 46,599 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,200 Americans named Kingston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kingston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kingston?
#204 among boys’ names, 2025
Kingston fell from #142 in 2015 to #204 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.6 to 1.0 per 1,000.
3,422 babies in 2021, the peak
Kingston peaked in 2021, when 3,422 babies were given it (3,410 boys, #112 among boys’ names). The 1,725 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,725 | #204 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 2,094 | #177 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 2,534 | #142 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,922 | #127 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 3,410 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 3,182 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 3,295 | #117 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 3,383 | #117 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 3,087 | #132 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 3,149 | #132 | 1.7 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,971 | #142 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 2,602 | #159 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,130 | #190 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 1,778 | #210 | 0.94 |
| 2011 | 1,579 | #228 | 0.83 |
| 2010 | 1,677 | #214 | 0.87 |
| 2009 | 1,613 | #225 | 0.81 |
| 2008 | 1,535 | #241 | 0.75 |
| 2007 | 893 | #355 | 0.43 |
| 2006 | 204 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 85 | #1,608 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,060 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,450 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,983 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,836 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,776 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,519 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,481 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,255 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,418 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,017 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,927 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,635 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,014 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,299 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,064 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kingston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kingston has been given almost only to boys: 193 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kingston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kingston, and how old are they?
46,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 46,599 Americans ever recorded as Kingston. The median Kingston alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 25,248 people named Kingston (193 women and girls, 25,055 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 158 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36,300 |
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 Kingston born?
The states with the most babies named Kingston are Texas, Ohio and Georgia, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 199 | #193 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 104 | #132 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 103 | #113 | 1.9× |
| California | 93 | #373 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 89 | #237 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 73 | #132 | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 70 | #71 | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 68 | #187 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 56 | #188 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 55 | #87 | 2.2× |
Where Kingston is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kingston is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1919 it was given 3.2 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 Kingston 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 49,488 babies since 1880, Kingston is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,725 of their 1,860 babies (93%), 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 Kingston
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 Kingston and names like it
- Compare Kingston and KyngstonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKingston peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kingston since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kingston.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kingston alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.