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Gaston

#3,395 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly guest, stranger

Gaston has been given to 4,053 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #3,395 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Gaston, 2025

1 in 97,500

Gaston over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaston: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly guest, stranger

French, surname transfer and Spanish

What Gaston means

Gaston may mean “guest, stranger”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gaston is used in English, French and Tagalog. Its origins include French, surname transfer and Spanish.

Gaston is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gaston is pronounced /ˈɡæstən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,053 boys were recorded with the name Gaston between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1918; its best national rank was #534 in 1903.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,909 in 2020 to #3,395 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,725 in 2015 to #3,395 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gaston?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,395
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaston sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gastons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaston was born before 1950 — so the typical Gaston is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,048
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.3% of all recorded uses (620).

Is Gaston rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+717
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,514
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+330
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.0%
Peak was 1918 (83)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#534
1903

Spellings of Gaston

Gaston is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 51.5% against Gaston's 0.20%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gaston is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaston was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 77,469 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gaston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaston around the world

Where Gaston ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1900–2025
    #192
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1956–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gaston

People whose public names include Gaston, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gaston in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gaston. Linked forms have their own page here.

GastoneGaszton

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gaston by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,395
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,514
Best rank ever
#534
1903
Peak year
1918
83 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,053
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Gaston

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Gaston

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gaston, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gaston

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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