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Heston

#2,315 in 2025Boys' name

Brushwood + settlement

Heston has been given to 1,613 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,315 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Heston, 2025

1 in 55,300

Heston over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heston: meaning, origin, and history

Brushwood + settlement

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heston means

Heston means “brushwood + settlement”, associated with hǣs and tūn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English hǣs (“brushwood”) + tūn (“settlement”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Heston (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Heston is used in English.

Heston comes through Old English hǣs.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Heston is pronounced /ˈhɛstən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,613 boys were recorded with the name Heston between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,892 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,482 in 2020 to #2,315 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,393 in 2015 to #2,315 in 2025.

How common is Heston?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,315
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heston 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hestons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heston was born before 2012 — so the typical Heston is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,571
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (576).

Is Heston 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
+574
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+167
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+78
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2016 (78)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,892
2016

Spellings of Heston

Heston is not the most common spelling — Preston is, with 17.9% against Heston's 0.23%.

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 Heston is used

Across 1910–2025, Heston was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 87,416 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Idaho1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8Nebraska1 in —

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. Heston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Heston around the world

Where Heston 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
    2006–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2021–2021
    #7,058
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2016–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2011–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Heston by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,315
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 167
Best rank ever
#1,892
2016
Peak year
2016
78 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,613
Count in 2025
60

Names similar to Heston

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

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Sibling names for Heston

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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