Kingston

girls:

187 births since 2007

#5529 (3rd percentile)

boys:

42.5k births since 1919

#543 (88th percentile)

overall:

42.7k births since 1919

#1193 (85th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kingston".

1919 2023 19192023

Key Statistics

Total Births
187
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
2007
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#924
Current Rank
#945
Female statistics
Total Births
42,497
Peak Births
3,396
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
88.2%
Current Percentile
84.8%
Peak Rank
#111
Current Rank
#139
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kingston

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kingston. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 73.3% confident that Kingston is pronounced as KIHNGS-tuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is KIHNG-stihn, at 13.3% confidence.

KIHNG-stihn (2 syllables)
Verified
13.3% confidence
K IH1 NG S T IH0 N
KIHNG-stuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
13.3% confidence
K IH1 NG S T AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kingston. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kingston, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KIHNGS-tihn (2 syllables)
5 names 897 births
K IH1 N G S T IH0 N
KIHNGS-teen (2 syllables)
3 names 880 births
K IH1 N G S T IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K IH1 N G S T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.