Koston

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
13
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Koston by the numbers

Koston was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 25 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Koston

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 Koston. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Koltoncoal settlement; a form of Colton679 in the US (2017)
  • Keston28 in the US (2017)
  • Kaston17 in the US (2017)
  • Kolston16 in the US (2017)
  • Kyston8 in the US (2017)
  • Keatonfrom Keaton, settlement where hawks fly496 in the US (2017)

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