Keston
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 28 babies a year in the US.
Keston by the numbers
Keston was given to 28 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Keston
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 Keston. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Keatonfrom Keaton, settlement where hawks fly496 in the US (2017)
- Kentonsettlement of the keen or royal estate133 in the US (2017)
- Keltonsettlement by the spring; a form of Kelton104 in the US (2017)
- Keystonvariant of Keystone or Kingston; settlement by the key or chest7 in the US (2017)
- Kaston17 in the US (2017)
- Keeton16 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Keston
Names that are said the same way as Keston, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Keston
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