Gaston
A Germanic name meaning "guest" or "stranger", carried into Polish through French. Fewer than 70 men in Poland use it, all male, and hardly any boy has been given it: the last two arrived back in 2013.
Gaston Pronunciation
Gaston is pronounced GAHS-ton (/ˈgastɔn/).
What Gaston means
Where Gaston comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gaston reaches back to a Germanic root, gast, the same source that gave English its word guest. The meaning is plain: guest, or stranger. Someone from outside who arrives and is taken in.
The French made the name their own. Gaston III of Foix, known as Gaston Fébus, ruled in the Pyrenees in the fourteenth century and wrote a famous treatise on hunting. Centuries later Gaston Leroux published The Phantom of the Opera. In France the name still has its own day, the sixth of February.
In Polish the sense arrives as gość. A guest at the door, brought inside. The name has no Polish diminutive of its own, so a boy on a class register stays simply Gaston. What the Germanic gast first meant, a stranger made welcome, it still means.
When Gaston celebrates name day
Gaston appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Gaston
1 in 309365 men in Poland is named Gaston. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4341 among male names.
Gaston's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Gaston as a middle name
Gaston is a first name for 69 men in Poland and a middle name for another 79, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 802nd, between Yehuda (80) and Geralt (79).
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#802 Gaston79
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