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Heston

Gender
Boy
US rank, 2025
#2,304 for boys

Heston is a boys' name, meaning “brushwood”. In 2025 it ranked 2,304th for boys in the US (60 babies).

What does Heston mean?

“brushwood”

A male given name

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Heston a girl's or a boy's name?

Heston is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 60 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Heston in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 22 boys.

Half of all the boys named Heston in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

2006Busiest: 22 in 20092024
Heston in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20244#4,346
20234#4,335
20220–
20218#2,619
20207#2,819
201913#1,858
20186#3,162
20179#2,461
201611#2,143
201514#1,779
20149#2,378
201316#1,560
201218#1,478
201111#2,011
201010#2,141
200922#1,214
20087#2,616
200710#1,987
20064#3,522

How popular is Heston in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,304th among boys
Babies in 2025
60 about 1 in 28,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 10% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 60 boys in the US were named Heston, making it the 2,304th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,466th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 78 boys. It first appears in the records in 1915.

Half of all the boys named Heston in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 78 boys in the US were given Heston or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,707, up from #2,304 for this spelling alone.

1915Busiest: 78 in 20162025
Heston in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202560#2,304
202444#2,873
202358#2,361
202259#2,378
202167#2,133
202052#2,466
201962#2,227
201866#2,121
201755#2,344
201678#1,890
201554#2,385
201461#2,203
201355#2,298
201249#2,516
201147#2,589
201049#2,510
200955#2,347
200853#2,404
200730#3,509
200625#3,886
200526#3,611
200420#4,259
200335#2,776
200225#3,445
200131#2,926
200027#3,144
199928#2,935
199818#3,845
199711#5,282
199612#4,871
199510#5,495
199418#3,590
199320#3,240
199217#3,597
199113#4,223
199011#4,667
198911#4,521
19885#7,264
198716#3,068
198613#3,437
198512#3,596
198413#3,268
19839#4,139
19827#5,001
198110#3,856
198010#3,837
197910#3,808
19788#4,155
19777#4,580
19766#4,933
19756#4,795
19746#4,632
19735#5,099
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19685#4,135
19670–
19660–
19650–
19646#3,600
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19575#3,991
19560–
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19430–
19420–
19410–
19400–
19396#3,112
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
19300–
19290–
19285#4,149
19270–
19260–
19255#4,195
19240–
19230–
19220–
19210–
19207#3,488
19197#3,390
19187#3,367
19170–
19160–
19155#3,824

Names like Heston

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Hudson, Jaxon, Grayson, Mason, Jenson, Harrison, Hunter, Noah, Austin, Enzo, Hugo, Theo

Other spellings of Heston

Hesston

Names related to Heston

Houston, Huston, Hayston

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Heston: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heston, updated 20 October 2026.