Kinston
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Kinston by the numbers
Kinston was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 14 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Kinston
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 Kinston. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kingstonking's settlement or town3,047 in the US (2017)
- Kenston11 in the US (2017)
- Kynston7 in the US (2017)
- Kentonsettlement of the keen or royal estate133 in the US (2017)
- Kyngstonking's stone; an invented spelling of Kingston72 in the US (2017)
- Kingstenking's settlement; a form of Kingston65 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kinston
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