The name Kingston is of English origin and it means ‘King’s town’. It is a surname that has been used as a first name. This name refers to a person who came from or lived in a town that was ruled by a king.
Kingston is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Kingston isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Kingston ranks 135. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 17 were named Kingston. In the entire USA, approximately 39,040 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kingston. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Kingston is of English origin and it means ‘King’s town’. It is a surname that has been used as a first name. This name refers to a person who came from or lived in a town that was ruled by a king.
What is a king? A king is the head of a monarchy, who holds the position of highest authority in a royal or imperial hierarchy. He typically inherits the position by birth and rules for life or until abdication. In the past and some current cultures, the king is seen as a divine or semi-divine figure.
Kingston is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kingston cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #110 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kingston, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kingston seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kingston was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
2,908 babies were named Kingston in 2022 - that's 1 in 55,664 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Kingston ranked 129 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Kingston occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Kingston is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Kingston is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 39,040 men and boys of all generations bear the name Kingston – that is one in 4,276. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Hawaii, where one in 400 men and boys is called Kingston, while it is particularly rare in Vermont, where you have to ask an average of 59,317 men for their name to get Kingston as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Kingston is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kingston 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 Kingston, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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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. Kingston sounds like this:
