Keston
#4,955 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keston has been given to 834 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #4,955 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 43 recorded.
Babies named Keston, 2025
1 in 166,000
Keston over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Keston?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,955
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keston sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kestons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keston was born before 2010 — so the typical Keston is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 834
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (304).
Is Keston 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
- +1,381
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,579
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −822
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 46.5%
- Peak was 2010 (43)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Keston
Keston is not the most common spelling — Preston is, with 19.6% against Keston's 0.13%.
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 Keston is used
Across 1910–2025, Keston was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,078,975 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
- 4Wisconsin1 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. Keston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keston around the world
Where Keston 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 & Wales2000–2019#4,702in 2019
- Canada2000–2019#2,943in 2019
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.
Keston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.