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Kashton

#400 in 2025Boys' name

Blend of Kash and Ashton

Kashton has been given to 7,708 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #400 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 858 recorded.

Babies named Kashton, 2025

1 in 4,160

Kashton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kashton: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Kash and Ashton

coinages

What Kashton means

Kashton is a blend of Kash and Ashton.

Origin, language, and formation

Kashton is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Kashton is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kash and Ashton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,658 boys were recorded with the name Kashton between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 858 in 2022; its best national rank was #378 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #442 in 2020 to #400 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #945 in 2015 to #400 in 2025.

In the United States, 50 girls were recorded with the name Kashton between 2016 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2019; its best national rank was #10,107 in 2019.

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 Kashton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,160
797 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,140
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#400
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,884 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kashton 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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 2,884 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kashton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kashtons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kashton was born before 2021 — so the typical Kashton is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,658
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (4,652).

Is Kashton 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
−5
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+545
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.9%
Peak was 2022 (858)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#378
2022

Spellings of Kashton

Kashton is not the most common spelling — Ashton is, with 40.5% against Kashton's 3.5%.

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 Kashton is used

Across 2016–2025, Kashton was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 455 boys, against 1 in 2,361 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 25,000).

4220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 455
  2. 2Alabama1 in 719
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 725
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 746
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 901
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 980
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,087
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 1,176

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.

Geographically, Kashton is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 89% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kashton around the world

Where Kashton 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
    2023–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #916
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kashton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#400
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 42
Best rank ever
#378
2022
Peak year
2022
858 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,658
Count in 2025
797

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,107
2019
Peak year
2019
10 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kashton

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

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Names with a curve like Kashton

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

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Sibling names for Kashton

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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