Gàston
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gàston is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 51st most common given name. Recorded meaning: First recorded for medieval French aristocracy, of disputed origin, possibly from Germanic gast "guest". ("A man from Gascony" has also been suggested, compare Gascon.).
- ARArgentina≈1 in 637(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 778
- CLChile≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 637 (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gaston in AR Argentina, CL Chile, UY Uruguay and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)First recorded for medieval French aristocracy, of disputed origin, possibly from Germanic gast "guest". ("A man from Gascony" has also been suggested, compare Gascon.)
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- African Names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gàston counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #134 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 637 | 782 | Gaston | 178 |
| FR France | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 94K | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 1 | Gaston | 54 |
| CL Chile | #289 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 59 | Gaston | 101 |
| UY Uruguay | #51 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 778 | — | Gaston | 91 |
| US United States | — | 3,579 | 1 in 93K | 20K | Gaston | 278 |
| BO Bolivia | #65 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Gaston | 37 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gàston mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded for medieval French aristocracy, of disputed origin, possibly from Germanic gast "guest". ("A man from Gascony" has also been suggested, compare Gascon.) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
- Is Gàston a male or female name?
- Gàston is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gàston have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Gàston in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaston.
- How common is the name Gàston?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,579 people named Gàston in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Gàston compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Gàston is the 134th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A0stonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gàston” — the 134th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.