boys:
800 births since 1981
#3787 (17th percentile)
overall:
800 births since 1981
#6939 (10th percentile)
The name Keston is the #6,939 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 800 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 10.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,787 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 800 births since 1981.
Keston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (first recorded for boys in 1981).
For boys, Keston reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #842) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keston ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 60.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keston".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Keston is pronounced as KEH-stuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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