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Huston

#7,869 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Huston has been given to 2,714 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,869 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Huston, 2025

1 in 332,000

Huston over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Huston: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Huston means

Huston is a given name.

The naming story behind Huston

Wikidata records Huston as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q56286016, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,714 boys were recorded with the name Huston between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1922; its best national rank was #620 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,717 in 2020 to #7,869 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,210 in 2015 to #7,869 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.

How common is Huston?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,869
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Huston 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Huston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hustons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Huston was born before 1939 — so the typical Huston is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,068
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (475).

Is Huston 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
−885
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−152
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,659
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.7%
Peak was 1922 (60)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#620
1908

Spellings of Huston

Huston is not the most common spelling — Justin is, with 42.8% against Huston's 0.15%.

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 Huston is used

Across 1910–2025, Huston was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 118,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 20,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Huston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Huston around the world

Where Huston 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Huston

People whose public names include Huston, 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.

Huston by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,869
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 152
Best rank ever
#620
1908
Peak year
1922
60 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,714
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Huston

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

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Names with a curve like Huston

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

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Sibling names for Huston

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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