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Langston

Rank in 2024
#911
Born in 2024
256
Peak year
2016 · #652
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 256 boys were named Langston, about 1 in every 6,700.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 405 babies, ranked #652.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1912.
  • 7,089 boys have been named Langston since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Langston per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 122 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 163 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 214 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 204 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 566 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,866 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,954 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English lang (“long, tall”) + stan (“stone”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Langston, CC BY-SA 4.0.