Kyngston
#2,373 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kyngston has been given to 977 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #2,373 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 108 recorded.
Babies named Kyngston, 2025
1 in 57,200
Kyngston 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kyngston?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 57,200
- 58 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 29,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,373
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 39,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kyngston 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kyngston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kyngstons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kyngston was born before 2020 — so the typical Kyngston is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 977
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (501).
Is Kyngston 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
- −76
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −835
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +629
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.49×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.7%
- Peak was 2020 (108)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kyngston
Kyngston is not the most common spelling — Kingston is, with 81.6% against Kyngston's 1.7%.
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 Kyngston is used
Across 2016–2025, Kyngston was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 23,048 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 3,571
- 2Alabama1 in 4,545
- 3Louisiana1 in 6,250
- 4Tennessee1 in 9,091
- 5South Carolina1 in 16,667
- 6Texas1 in 16,667
- 7Georgia1 in 20,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 20,000
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.
Kyngston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kyngston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kyngston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.