as a Last Name
- 19,837
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Gaston
Meaning & Origins
French: from the Old French oblique case of a Germanic personal name, originally probably a byname from gasti ‘stranger’, ‘guest’, ‘host’. Compare Guest. The surname is also found in England and Ireland, where it is probably a Huguenot importation.
| 1,833rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 19,837
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Gaston per capita
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