Boy · Uncertain (French or Germanic)
Gaston
Say it: gas-TOHN
Meaning
Uncertain. Possibly from Gascon 'man from Gascony', or from a Germanic gast 'guest'.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
A noble name of the south-west, popular in the late 19th century and revived recently.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 3,926 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 1882, about 1 in 11,400 boys
- 18 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Spanish | Gastón |
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Famous bearers
- Gaston Fébus, Count of Foix
- Gaston d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIII
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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