Langston
Langston is ranked 909th among boys in 2024 (256 births). Its best rank was 652nd, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- #909down 17 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2560.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2016405 births
- Best rank
- #652in 2016
- Since 1912
- 7,427people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,089 boys have been named Langston in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 405 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 748 → 909).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 41%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 338 girls have also been given it, 4.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Langston | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 55 | |
| 1920s | 78 | |
| 1930s | 87 | |
| 1940s | 135 | |
| 1950s | 94 | |
| 1960s | 92 | |
| 1970s | 145 | |
| 1980s | 226 | |
| 1990s | 562 | |
| 2000s | 1,134 | |
| 2010s | 2,936 | |
| 2020s | 1,545 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Langston was the 652nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Langston
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jadpeak 2020
- Kyepeak 2016
- Nikolaipeak 2016
- Hendrikpeak 2020
- Greypeak 2021
- Matthiaspeak 2018
- Croixpeak 2019
- Eyadpeak 2016
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.