girls:
202 births since 1982
#5514 (4th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1915
#2359 (49th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1915
#4921 (36th percentile)
The name Aston is the #4,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,048 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 36.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,359 (48.5% percentile) for all time with 2,846 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,514 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 202 births since 1982.
Aston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Aston is available in 56 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (56 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aston has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 92.8% of babies named Aston were boys.
For boys, Aston reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 19.1% percentile (ranked #732) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 87 births per million (ranked 19.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aston ranks #775 for boys (14.9% percentile) with 77 births per million, which is 88.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aston reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #938) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aston is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #941 (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aston".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aston. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Aston is pronounced as A-stuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-stuhn, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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