Coleston
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Coleston by the numbers
Coleston was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 13 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Coleston
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Coleston. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Colesoncoal-black; son of Cole; a form of Colson102 in the US (2017)
- Colstoncole's settlement; a place name used as a given name50 in the US (2017)
- Coleton36 in the US (2017)
- Coltondark settlement; coal town5,261 in the US (2017)
- Colsoncoal-black; son of Cole321 in the US (2017)
- Chestonstone camp settlement; form of Chester8 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Coleston
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