Kashton
Masculine
Kashton is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 7,658 boys against 50 girls since 1880.
Kashton is one of the newer American names, built the way English surnames were built — a first element joined to -ton, the old word for a settlement, the same ending that carries Ashton, Easton, Paxton and Braxton. It arrived with the fashion for that ending and has held its place ever since rather than flaring and fading, and it has been strongest across the southern states.
How old is the name Kashton?
Kashton first appears in US birth records in 2004 — 21 years ago. The typical Kashton is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 7,600 people named Kashton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kashton most popular?
Kashton peaked in 2022, reaching #378 nationally. Today it ranks #400, 22 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Kashton
Names ending in -ton reached American children by a long road: Old English tūn, 'settlement', built into place names, place names hardened into surnames, and surnames became first names in the United States. That pattern gave Ashton, Easton, Braxton and Paxton, and Kashton belongs to the same family — a K-initial variation on a shape parents already recognized. It appears in US records only in recent decades, first thinly and then steadily, and its strongest ground has been Texas, Georgia and Florida.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Kashton is a modern coinage rather than an inherited name, so it has no established translation. What is documented are its parts: the -ton ending comes from Old English tūn, 'enclosure, farmstead, settlement', the element behind thousands of English place names and the surnames drawn from them; the opening syllable matches Kash, the K-spelling of Cash that circulates as a name in its own right in the US. Nobody has settled which name it was modeled on, and it may simply have been assembled by sound.
Pronouncing Kashton
KASH-tun
Two syllables, stress on the first: Ashton with a K in front. The second syllable is the same unstressed -ton heard in Easton and Clinton, never 'tone'.
Nicknames for Kashton
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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
- 2004
- Most boys named
- 2022858 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #378reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −3.4%797 in 2025, from 825
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.
Kashton in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Kashtons among us
people named Kashton are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,143 born in 2025 was named Kashton
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kashton
- #400
- Kashton on the 2025 chart
- #325
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kashton went to 797 boys in 2025, but Cashton is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 990, which makes it the 325th most-given boys’ name of the year — 75 places above the chart.
- Kashton797
- Cashton193
About 1 boy in 1,725 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,143 for Kashton 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 Duncan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kashton's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Duncan climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Duncan's path sketches the road Kashton is walking now.
Kashton 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
Where Kashton is headed
Kashton should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kashton beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kashton in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly on sight for English speakers — the -ton ending is already familiar from Ashton, Easton and Braxton, so it rarely needs sounding out.
- Comes with a ready short form, Kash, which is itself in use as a standalone name.
- Steady rather than spiky in the record: it has held a consistent place instead of surging and vanishing.
- Well established across the South, especially Texas, Georgia and Florida, where it will register as an ordinary name.
- Rare enough day to day that a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
- The K will be questioned constantly. Cashton, Kashtyn and Cashtyn all exist, so expect to spell it aloud — and to have people default to C.
- The first syllable sounds exactly like 'cash', which invites money jokes, mostly harmless and mostly from other kids.
- Almost everyone carrying this name is still a child, so it currently reads as belonging to one very recent wave rather than to any adult generation.
- There is no older history to lean on — no saints, no kings, no forms in other languages, no long paper trail. If you want a name with depth behind it, this is not that name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kashtons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,600 people named Kashton are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kashton?
- Kashton is the most-used spelling in US records — 797 of the 990 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Cashton.
- How popular is the name Kashton in 2025?
- Kashton ranks #400 among US boy names in 2025, with 797 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kashton?
- About 1 in every 2,143 US boys born in 2025 was named Kashton — 797 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kashton with classmates?
- Kashton will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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