Weston

24,628 people in the United States were counted with the surname Weston in the 2020 census, making it the 1,407th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,100.

By the numbers

People: 24,628
Rank: 1,407th
How common: 1 in 12,100
Per 100,000: 8.2

Where the name comes from

From Old English west (“west”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.1%
Black, not Hispanic 21.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Weston

Edward Weston (1886–1958)American photographer
Michael Weston (born 1973)American actor
Celia Weston (born 1951)American actress
Jonny Weston (born 1988)American actor
Randy Weston (1926–2018)American jazz pianist
Matt Weston (born 1997)British skeleton racer
Jack Weston (1924–1996)American actor
Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581–1612)English-born Bohemian poet (1580s–1612)

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

Surnames like Weston

Also a first name

Weston has been given to 76,027 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2025. 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.