Hesston
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #5,207 for boys
Hesston is a boys' name, meaning “brushwood”. In 2025 it ranked 5,207th for boys in the US (18 babies).
What does Hesston mean?
Spelling of Heston
“brushwood”
A male given name
Meaning borrowed from Heston. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Hesston a girl's or a boy's name?
Hesston is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hesston in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,207th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 95,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 18 boys in the US were named Hesston, making it the 5,207th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 27 boys. It first appears in the records in 1986.
Half of all the boys named Hesston in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 78 boys in the US were given Hesston or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,707, up from #5,207 for this spelling alone.
- Heston 60
- Hesston 18
Hesston in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,452 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,908 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,947 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,536 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,293 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,198 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,078 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,260 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,400 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,387 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,196 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,511 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,715 |
Names like Hesston
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hudson, Easton, Colson, Stetson, Jaxton, Daxton, Kyson, Kayson, Boston, Kingston, Sutton, Hendrix
Other spellings of Hesston
Names related to Hesston
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hesston: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hesston, updated 20 October 2026.