Kingston is an English place name that means "king's town" or "king's estate", from the Old English cyning and tun, and it is also the capital of Jamaica. Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale named their son Kingston in 2006, and the name entered the US top 1000 that very year. It climbed quickly to the top 150 by 2015, peaked at number 112 in 2021 and ranks number 204 in 2025.