Weston

loc · Latin script

Meaning: from Weston, numerous English places meaning ‘western farmstead’

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

Weston is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.

rarermore common
  • CACanada
  • USUnited States
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Canada (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
464 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Weston, numerous English places meaning ‘western farmstead’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Weston counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Weston is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CA Canada—62Weston163
US United States—45KWeston464
GB United Kingdom—3Weston259
AU Australia—2Weston172
RU Russia——Weston16
ES Spain—165Weston39

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: Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Weston is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom

    Also written Westòn

68 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)

Weston is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from one of the numerous Westons; first attested Godwinus de Westuna 1086 DB (Herefordshire).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Old English; from the western farm or town.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, the very many places so called, from OE west West + tun Wessel see Warner enclosure, settlement. In some cases (see below), it may be from the Leics. or Middlesex villages called Whetstone or

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In English, Any of many places in England:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Jack, actor

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

1850190019502000Edward Weston, b. 1886Jack Weston, b. 1924Ruth Brown, b. 1928Wolfman Jack, b. 1938Celia Weston, b. 1951Michael Weston, b. 1973Jonny Weston, b. 1988Weston Cage, b. 1990Porter Robinson, b. 1992Weston McKennie, b. 1998

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 57 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Weston
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201026K#1,380
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200025K#1,308
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202025K#1,407
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—165#19,119
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—165#19,027

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

In which country does Weston have the most bearers?
Weston is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled weston.
What does the name Weston mean, and where does it come from?
from Weston, numerous English places meaning ‘western farmstead’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

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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, “Weston”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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