Kingston
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #204 for boys in 2025, 1,725 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 3,410 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 46,406since 1919
Kingston over time
Rank among boys' names. Kingston has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #204 | 1,725 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #176 | 2,094 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #142 | 2,534 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #126 | 2,922 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #112 | 3,410 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #117 | 3,182 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #117 | 3,295 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #117 | 3,383 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #132 | 3,087 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 | #132 | 3,149 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #142 | 2,971 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #158 | 2,602 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #190 | 2,130 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #210 | 1,778 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #228 | 1,579 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #214 | 1,677 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #225 | 1,613 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #241 | 1,535 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #354 | 893 |
| 2006 | — | #926 | 204 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,603 | 85 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,051 | 58 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,428 | 43 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,943 | 31 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,797 | 33 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,736 | 33 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,502 | 32 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,191 | 21 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,290 | 14 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,813 | 15 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1951 | — | #2,844 | 8 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kingston! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kingston
- 28 spots since 2024 (#176 → #204)
- 87 spots since 2020 (#117 → #204)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#142 → #204)
- Biggest jump: 677 spots in 2006 (#1,603 → #926)
- Biggest drop: 34 spots in 2024 (#142 → #176)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 2021 at #112 (3,410 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 513 boys born in 2021 were named Kingston (0.19%)
- Latest: 1 in 990 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
- 55.3% of all boys named Kingston (25,651) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 9 | #2,986 (1921) | #2,986 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,534 (1938) | #3,649 |
| 1940s | 31 | #2,671 (1940) | #3,159 |
| 1950s | 19 | #2,844 (1951) | #3,372 |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,318 (1963) | #3,318 |
| 1970s | 28 | #3,857 (1978) | #4,682 |
| 1980s | 61 | #3,521 (1987) | #5,206 |
| 1990s | 190 | #2,502 (1997) | #3,784 |
| 2000s | 4,528 | #225 (2009) | #1,630 |
| 2010s | 25,651 | #117 (2018) | #164 |
| 2020s | 15,867 | #112 (2021) | #146 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kingston in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 10,075 of them was named Kingston, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).