# Kingston (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kingston/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 46,599 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 46,406 / 193 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 388, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | 10,151 |
| 2011 | 12 | 9,454 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,789 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,340 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,873 |
| 2015 | 11 | 9,833 |
| 2016 | 18 | 6,790 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,185 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,262 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,145 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,725 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,740 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,750 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,833 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,417 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,579 | 228 |
| 2012 | 1,778 | 210 |
| 2013 | 2,130 | 190 |
| 2014 | 2,602 | 159 |
| 2015 | 2,971 | 142 |
| 2016 | 3,149 | 132 |
| 2017 | 3,087 | 132 |
| 2018 | 3,383 | 117 |
| 2019 | 3,295 | 117 |
| 2020 | 3,182 | 118 |
| 2021 | 3,410 | 112 |
| 2022 | 2,922 | 127 |
| 2023 | 2,534 | 142 |
| 2024 | 2,094 | 177 |
| 2025 | 1,725 | 204 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 16 | 1,507 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,404 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,117 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,279 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2019 | 26 | 1,056 |
| 2020 | 29 | 962 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,329 |
| 2022 | 23 | 1,179 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,701 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,460 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## People named Kingston

- Robert Kingston Scott, 74th Governor of South Carolina, and an officer in the Union Army (1826-1900)
- Kingston Flemings, American basketball player (born 2007)
- Pete Wentz, American musician
- Keith Roberts, British writer and artist (1935-2000)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.