Gastón

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gastón is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Germánico; hipocorístico de nombres en gast, 'forastero, huésped'.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 8.5K
  • CLChile≈1 in 11K

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)

≈5,400 people, est.

Sources
427 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gaston in US United States, 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)

recorded in Spanish

Germánico; hipocorístico de nombres en gast, 'forastero, huésped'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gastón 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.

Where Gastón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#608≈5,400 est.≈1 in 8.5K782Gastón78
US United States—3,5791 in 93K20KGaston427
CL Chile—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 11K59Gastón43
EC Ecuador—1,4171 in 12K1.4K—13
ES Spain—6641 in 75K1.7KGaston48
UY Uruguay#310≈420 est.≈1 in 8K—Gastón52
SE Sweden—3871 in 26K387—10

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gastón is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lao given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Chile, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Gaston, แกสตัน, Gastòn, กาสตอง, Gástón

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gast-On, Gaston

  • Spanish given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Gaston, Gãstòn, Gắstỡn, Gastòn, Gàstộn

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Gaston

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gastón is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Extranjero, huésped

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Nestor Carbonell, b. 1967Gastón Pavlovich, b. 1968Gastón Pauls, b. 1972Gastón Gaudio, b. 1978Martín Demichelis, b. 1980Gastón Ramírez, b. 1990Gaston Vietto, b. 1990Gastón Silva, b. 1994Gastón Pereiro, b. 1995Gastón Ávila, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Gastón
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1996697—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1995617—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1997579—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1991470—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1993463—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1994462—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1998459—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1992459—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1989422—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1990394—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2000375—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)1986372—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Gastón a male or female name?
Gastón 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.
What does the name Gastón mean?
Recorded meaning: Germánico; hipocorístico de nombres en gast, 'forastero, huésped'.
In which country does Gastón have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Gastón in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gastón.
What are other forms of the name Gastón?
In the etymology graph, Gastone is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Gastón?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,579 people named Gastón in 2020, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
How common is Gastón compared with other names?
In Argentina, Gastón is the 608th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gastón” — the 608th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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