Given name & surname
Keston
“enclosure; settlement”
Keston is a surname, possibly from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Keston possibly goes back to Old English tūn, meaning “enclosure; settlement.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Possibly from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Keston through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 834
- 834 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 43 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #4,956 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,956 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 24.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 43 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 824 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Keston’s family of names
Keston may belong to the same name family as KESSTON. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Keston
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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