Gaston
Gaston reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 684, and has been recorded 4,053 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,379th. About 2,100 Gastons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gaston
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,053
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 684th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,379th
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Gastons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,053 babies given the name since 1881, about 2,100 are alive — 51 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname, French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gastons
- Gaston Doumergue (1863–1937)French lawyer and statesman
- Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)French writer and philosopher
- Gaston Leroux (1868–1927)French author and journalist
- Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917)French mathematician
- Gaston Maspero (1846–1918)French egyptologist
- Gaston Thorn (1928–2007)Luxembourgish politician
- Gaston Browne (born 1967)Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda since 2014
- Gastón Gaudio (born 1978)Argentine tennis player
People named Gaston with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gaston is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gaston is most concentrated in Louisiana (7.0×), North Carolina (6.4×), Alabama (4.8×), Mississippi (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Gaston peaked:
Gaston elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Gaston | 94,550 | 24th |
| Belgium boys | Gaston | 1,499 | 36th |
| France girls | Gaston | 145 | 700th |
| Switzerland boys | Gaston | 132 | 523rd |
| England and Wales boys | Gaston | 20 | 3,478th |
| Poland boys | Gaston | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Gaston: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Gaston | 36 | 0.003% | 868th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Gaston | 96 | 0.022% | 172nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Gaston is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Gaston: rank by region
In 2025, Gaston was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Gaston | 59 | 81 |
| Wallonia | Gaston | 82 | 36 |
| Brussels | Gaston | 153 | 8 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Gaston appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (37th), Province of West Flanders (42nd), Province of Namur (44th), Province of Antwerp (65th), Province of Liège (80th), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Gaston among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Gaston | 6 | 23 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Gaston lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 664 men called Gaston were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Gaston | 60 | 0.096 | 733 |
| Barcelona | Gaston | 153 | 0.052 | 1,089 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Gaston | 46 | 0.046 | 1,412 |
| Girona | Gaston | 19 | 0.046 | 1,329 |
| Gipuzkoa | Gaston | 15 | 0.042 | 1,181 |
| Málaga | Gaston | 35 | 0.040 | 1,294 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Gaston against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.