Elston
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning elli's settlement or old stone settlement.
Babies a year
10
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Elston by the numbers
Elston was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 50 babies in 1961, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Elston. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a stone or rock
Like Elston, each of these has a stone or rock in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Harleyhare meadow or rocky meadow366 in England and Wales (2025)
- Peterrock, stone1,777 in the US (2017)
- Harlowrocky hill or army hill832 in the US (2017)
- Esmeraldaemerald; the precious green stone815 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Elston
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