boy's name
Kashton
KASH-tun
- Origin American
- Gender Boy
- Letters 7
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 8,259
the United States
#400
2025 births
Kashton is a boy's name of modern American coinage, joining Kash to the TON ending taken from Braxton and Paxton. It has no older source as a compound and names no settlement, despite an ending that means exactly that.
- Kashton is a name of American origin.
- Peaked in 2022, when 864 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 4,160 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 2004.
Kashton over time
Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 2000s | 179 |
| 2010s | 2,848 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 4,681 |
What Kashton means
Kashton has no inherited meaning. Kash respells Cash, an English surname for a box maker; TON is the Old English word for a settlement. Joined, they describe a place that does not exist.
Where Kashton comes from
Kashton assembles two real parts into a name that is not. Cash comes from the Norman French casse, a box or case, marking a maker of them, and the K respelling follows a modern American habit. The TON ending is the Old English tun, an enclosure or farmstead, which ends thousands of genuine English place names — Brighton, Paxton, Boston. Kashton names no such place. Our records show it appearing in 2004 and peaking in 2022, alongside Braxton, Daxton and Jaxton, which are formed the same way and belong to the same brief fashion.
Kashton in use
Kashton first appears in our records in 2004 and charts in only two of the seven countries we track.
How popular is Kashton?
In 2025, Kashton was given to 797 babies in the United States, ranking #400 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Kashton is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Kashton
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Kashton also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Kashton over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
1 nickname for Kashton
Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.
Kashton in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Kashton
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Kashton — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Kashton
What does the name Kashton mean?
Nothing inherited. It joins Kash, a respelling of the surname Cash, to the English TON ending meaning a settlement — but Kashton names no settlement.
Is Kashton related to Cash?
The first half is. Cash comes from the Norman French casse, a box, and has nothing to do with money.
How new is the name Kashton?
It first appears in the birth records we hold in 2004.
How popular is the name Kashton?
In 2025, Kashton was given to 797 babies in the United States, ranking #400 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Is Kashton a girl's or a boy's name?
Kashton is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.
When was Kashton most popular?
Kashton peaked in 2022, when 864 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.
What are the nicknames for Kashton?
Kashton is usually shortened to Kash.
Is Kashton a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Kashton currently ranks #400 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.