Boy · Old English
Weston
Say it: WES-tun
Meaning
From an English surname taken from place names, from Old English west 'west' and tun 'settlement'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Rose in the US from the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 53,498 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 480 boys
- 3,413 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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