Caston
Masculine · “a settlement”
Caston belongs to the modern revival of the -ton ending on boys, which since about 2005 has produced Paxton, Braxton, Colton, Easton and Caston. The ending is a genuine Old English word for a settlement, and the fronts attached to it are increasingly invented. Caston's American peak is 2017, which makes it one of the newest names in this part of the list.
How old is the name Caston?
Caston first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Caston is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Caston are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Caston most popular?
Caston peaked in 2017, reaching #3378 nationally. Today it ranks #5861, 2,483 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tun to Caston
The story of Caston
The -ton names arrived on the American boys' list in two distinct waves. The first, around 1900, promoted genuine surnames — Milton, Carlton, Wilton, Clinton — usually through the practice of giving a mother's family name to a son. The second began in the 1990s and works differently: the ending itself became the fashionable part, and parents attached it to fronts chosen for sound. Braxton, Paxton, Kingston, Easton and Caston all belong to this wave, and several of them correspond to no surname at all. Caston sits at the newer end of it, and its rise after 2010 tracks the peak of the whole -ton fashion.
Meaningscholars disagree
a settlement — the first element is uncertain
The -ton is certain: Old English tun means an enclosure, a farmstead or a settlement, and it is the most common ending in English place names. The front is the question. Caston is a real village in Norfolk, recorded in Domesday Book, whose first element is a personal name; but the modern American given name is at least as likely to be built from Cash, Case or Carson plus the fashionable ending, or to be a respelling of the French Gaston, which is a different name entirely.
How the name formed
- tun
- Caston
- Caston
Related forms: Gaston · Casston
Pronouncing Caston
KAS-tun
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the ending reduced to a schwa. The short a of cast. English readers produce it correctly on sight; the only competing reading comes from those who see the French Gaston in it.
Nicknames for Caston
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most boys named
- 201733 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3378reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +25.0%15 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Caston in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gaston in French — related form
- Casston in English — spelling variant
Castons among us
people named Caston are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was named Caston
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Caston
- #5861
- Caston on the 2025 chart
- #892
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Caston went to 15 boys in 2025, but Kaston is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 36, which makes it the 892nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,969 places above the chart.
- Kaston21
- Caston15
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 113,872 for Caston itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deavion test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Caston's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deavion climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deavion's path sketches the road Caston is walking now.
Caston sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Caston beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Caston in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Cash is a ready-made short form already popular on its own.
- The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling with no real ambiguity.
- It fits a large, familiar family of names while being uncommon itself.
- Caston, Casten and Kaston all circulate, so records will drift.
- It is easily heard as Carson, Caleb or Gaston.
- The -ton fashion dates the name closely to the 2005-2025 window.
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Frequently asked
- How many Castons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Caston are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Caston?
- Caston is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kaston is the more common one — 21 births in 2025 against 15 for Caston.
- How popular is the name Caston in 2025?
- Caston ranks #5861 among US boy names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Caston?
- About 1 in every 113,872 US boys born in 2025 was named Caston — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Caston with classmates?
- Caston will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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