Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1915–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
The high point was 2016: 78 births recorded as Heston. The name does not appear in the data until 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,304 with 60 births.
Year on year the rank improved by 569.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Heston?
An estimated 1,500 living Americans are called Heston. That is out of 1,613 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Heston?
Median age among living Hestons: 13. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Heston a current name.
Your Heston
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Heston is most common
The name is concentrated in Arkansas, at 7.4× the national rate. Utah, Oklahoma and Texas follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Heston is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
