I signed books at another baby event last weekend and a couple different parents told me they’d settled on the name Kingston for their sons.

 

Kingston is the perfect example of the influence celebrities have on baby naming. Kingston didn’t make the Social Security Top 1000 until 2006 – the year that Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale used the name for their son Kingston James McGregor Rossdale. That year it ranked #942 and every year since then it’s grown in popularity. In 2009, Kingston ranked #225.

 

Sources: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1194406_1067399,00.html; http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

 

What do you think of the name? Is Kingston too trendy or just right? Does the name make you think of rockers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale? Or are you more likely to think of vacationing in Kingston, Jamaica when you hear the name? Let me know!

 

Happy naming,

♥  Amanda

 

 

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