Gaston

At the 2020 census, 18,733 Americans bore the surname Gaston — 1,880th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,000.

By the numbers

People: 18,733
Rank: 1,880th
How common: 1 in 16,000
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Northern French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 47.3%
Black, not Hispanic 40.4%
Hispanic or Latino 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Gaston

Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608–1660)French prince
Prince Gaston, Count of Eu (1842–1922)Brazilian and French Imperial and Royal
Michael Gaston (born 1962)American actor
Justin Gaston (born 1988)American actor, model, and singer
Hugo Gaston (born 2000)French tennis player
Iñaki Gastón (born 1963)Spanish racing cyclist

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

Surnames like Gaston

Also a first name

Gaston has been given to 4,053 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1918. 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.