Aston

At the 2020 census, 3,758 Americans bore the surname Aston — 8,435th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 79,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,758
Rank: 8,435th
How common: 1 in 79,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English ēast (“east”) and tūn (“town, village”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Aston described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Aston

Francis William Aston (1877–1945)British chemist
John Aston, Sr. (1921–2003)English footballer
Alfred Aston (1912–2003)French footballer
Ken Aston (1915–2001)Football referee
John Aston, Jr. (born 1947)English footballer
Luise Aston (1814–1871)German writer, editor
Bill Aston (1900–1974)British racing driver
William George Aston (1841–1911)British diplomat, scholar and author

People named Aston with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Aston

Also a first name

Aston has been given to 3,257 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.