Gaston
Gaston is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191883 births
- Best rank
- #534in 1903
- Since 1881
- 4,019people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,019 boys have been named Gaston in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 83 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gaston | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 53 | |
| 1890s | 78 | |
| 1900s | 126 | |
| 1910s | 434 | |
| 1920s | 620 | |
| 1930s | 372 | |
| 1940s | 322 | |
| 1950s | 264 | |
| 1960s | 232 | |
| 1970s | 236 | |
| 1980s | 296 | |
| 1990s | 397 | |
| 2000s | 264 | |
| 2010s | 215 | |
| 2020s | 110 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Gaston was the 686th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Gaston
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Oranpeak 1922
- Ennispeak 1922
- Obiepeak 1924
- Otispeak 1920
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Hustonpeak 1922
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
- Herschelpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.