Astoria is a place name borrowed from the fur-trading post that John Jacob Astor founded on the Oregon coast in 1811 and from the Queens neighborhood that followed; the Astor surname itself is of uncertain origin and is usually linked to an Old Provençal word for "hawk". The Waldorf-Astoria hotel gives the name a glamorous, Gilded Age feel. Astoria rose from number 7318 in 2015 to a peak of 1998 in 2024 and ranks 2216 in 2025 with 83 births.