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Coston

Coston reached its high-water mark in 1916 at number 2,543, and has been recorded 97 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 40 Costons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Coston

By the numbers

Total US births
97
Estimated living today
40
Median age today
21
Peak year
1916
Best rank
2,543rd
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1916

How old the living Costons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 97 babies given the name since 1916, about 40 are alive — 39 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1916

The most popular boys’ names the year Coston peaked:

All the names of 1916

Related names

Coston against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.