Gáston
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gáston is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,579 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. 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.). Gáston is also written แกสตัน in Thai.
- ECEcuador1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 26K
- GYGuyana1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gáston itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
3,579 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gáston in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gaston in US United States, LA Laos, ES Spain.
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 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gáston 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,579 | 1 in 93K | 20K | Gaston | 32 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,417 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 664 | 1 in 75K | 1.7K | Gaston | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 387 | 1 in 26K | 387 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 302 | 1 in 701K | 302 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 109 | 1 in 47K | 109 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | — |
| LA Laos | #220 | — | — | — | Gaston | 1 |
3,579 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Gáston 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 Gáston a male or female name?
- Gáston 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Gáston?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Gáston, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaston. After it come Ecuador, Spain, Sweden and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gáston most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gáston is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gáston?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,579 people named Gáston in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Gáston compared with other names?
- In Laos, Gáston is the 220th most common given name of 27,499 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%A1stonThe 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, “Gáston” — ranked 1797th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.