Kingston
For 2025 the count puts Kingston at #204 nationwide, cooling off gently. Its record runs from 1919 through a 2021 peak, 46,406 children in all.
Kingston’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Kingston, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Kingston since 1919
Kingston peaked in 2021 at #112; #204 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Kingston is most common
Kingston is most common in Mississippi: 0.41% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. South Carolina (0.33%) and Arkansas (0.31%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Kingston
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Kairo
#226 in 2025
Kaiden
#237 in 2025
Kyrie
#244 in 2025
Kayden
#135 in 2025
Kinsley
#93 in 2025
Camden
#205 in 2025
Stevie
#203 in 2025
Noelle
#202 in 2025
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About Kingston
How common is Kingston today?
For 2025 the count puts Kingston at #204 nationwide, cooling off gently. The full curve since 1919 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Kingston?
Kingston postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
What names go with Kingston?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Kairo, Kaiden and Kyrie, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Kingston’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Kingston earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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