Easton is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The first name Easton is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #76 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Easton, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 68,039 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Easton. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Easton is of English origin and it means ‘east town’ or ‘eastern settlement.’ It is derived from the Old English words ‘east’ for the direction and ‘tun’ meaning ‘town’ or ‘settlement.’ The name Easton is often associated with new beginnings and the direction of the sunrise, which is east.
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When you hear the name Easton, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Easton? Are you also called Easton? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
there is a small village called Easton Grey. It has a population of less than 100 people and has existed at least since 1086, when it was documented as Estone.
you can find the village Easton. It is located on the west side of the English island.
there was a village in central England called Easton Neston. The nearby Easton Neston House, a large country house built around 1700, bears the same name.
in the US bear the name Easton. You can find them for example in Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, New York, and California.
in Columbus, Ohio is called Easton Town Center. It opened in 1999 and features around 300 stores and services.
for farming named Easton was located, where you can find the city of Atlanta today. It is Georgias capital and, with 500,000 inhabitants, its most populous city.
This is a real surprise! Easton is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2017, it reached its best rank at #66 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Easton much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Easton was observed for the first time ever in 1907, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2017, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 5,561 times. Whether this beautiful boys' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Easton was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Easton ranked #81 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 4,187 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Easton will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
The name Easton may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Easton is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 601 men in Utah is called Easton. In total, that’s 2,265 people who feel addressed when the name Easton is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #154 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Easton as the answer a total of 68,039 times. This places Easton at #365 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Easton as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Easton is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Easton and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Easton, you can simply say:
Elephant
Apple
Sun
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Easton
Easton
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Easton sounds like this:
