Duston
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Duston, Northamptonshire; first attested Aelisia de Duston’ 1190 P
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdəstən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duston is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 742K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.8M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 742K (inferred from the name graph)
448 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled D'Uston in FR France.
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)from Duston, Northamptonshire; first attested Aelisia de Duston’ 1190 P
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Duston 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 | 448 | 1 in 742K | 1K | Duston | 15 |
| FR France | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | D'Uston | 24 |
448 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Duston 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.
In English, A suburb and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Northampton borough (OS grid ref SP7261).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Hannah Dustonb. 1657UScolonial Massachusetts Puritan
- Benjamin Dustonb. 1808FRFrench painter (1808–1876)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 504 | #45,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 448 | #47,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 438 | #45,909 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Duston mean, and where does it come from?
- from Duston, Northamptonshire; first attested Aelisia de Duston’ 1190 P Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Duston?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdəstən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Duston a male or female name?
- Duston is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Duston have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 448 people named Duston, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duston.
- Where is Duston most common?
- Duston is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 742 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Duston?
- In the United States, the national register counted 448 people named Duston in 2010, about 1 in 742 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dustonThe 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, “Duston”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.