Meaning not yet researched.
Cleon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #662 in 1903.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #662 in 1903; #9,900 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cleon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,900 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1903, at #662.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Cleon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #662 in 1903 · most boys in one year: 75 (1921).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Cleon, making it the 9,900th most common boys’ name of the year, down 744 places from #9,156 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 boys named Cleon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #662, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 75, in 1921. For comparison, it was #7,158 in 2015 and #1,368 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cleon in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 3,189 US babies have been given the name, 5.9% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 634 babies named Cleon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 61 US boys were named Cleon; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cleone, Klein and Clione are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cleone (1,325), Klein (370), Clione (16), Clen (5), Kleon (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cleon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #9,900 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,156 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #7,870 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #9,928 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #12,524 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #12,533 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #7,703 |
| 2015 | — | — | 11 | #7,158 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #9,834 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #12,491 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,606 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,268 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #11,253 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #12,702 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #10,920 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,717 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,268 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #9,792 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,179 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,469 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,291 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,720 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,965 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,006 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,268 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,328 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #7,946 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,260 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,948 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,431 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,333 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,063 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,213 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,367 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,022 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,097 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,266 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,194 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,441 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,063 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,286 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,598 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,389 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,576 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,578 |
| 1975 | — | — | 43 | #1,324 |
| 1974 | — | — | 37 | #1,414 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,701 |
| 1972 | — | — | 28 | #1,654 |
| 1971 | — | — | 40 | #1,332 |
| 1970 | — | — | 60 | #1,055 |
| 1969 | — | — | 52 | #1,076 |
| 1968 | — | — | 27 | #1,511 |
| 1967 | — | — | 17 | #1,917 |
| 1966 | — | — | 29 | #1,430 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,931 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,326 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,704 |
| 1962 | — | — | 19 | #1,860 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,255 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,141 |
| 1959 | — | — | 23 | #1,673 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,601 |
| 1957 | — | — | 24 | #1,641 |
| 1956 | — | — | 32 | #1,364 |
| 1955 | — | — | 26 | #1,510 |
| 1954 | — | — | 25 | #1,532 |
| 1953 | — | — | 25 | #1,521 |
| 1952 | — | — | 22 | #1,627 |
| 1951 | — | — | 28 | #1,413 |
| 1950 | — | — | 28 | #1,368 |
| 1949 | — | — | 21 | #1,624 |
| 1948 | — | — | 32 | #1,281 |
| 1947 | — | — | 37 | #1,191 |
| 1946 | — | — | 28 | #1,331 |
| 1945 | — | — | 29 | #1,231 |
| 1944 | — | — | 24 | #1,372 |
| 1943 | — | — | 41 | #1,060 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,741 | 31 | #1,249 |
| 1941 | — | — | 36 | #1,094 |
| 1940 | — | — | 32 | #1,189 |
| 1939 | — | — | 38 | #1,036 |
| 1938 | — | — | 43 | #967 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,364 | 37 | #1,058 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,153 | 46 | #907 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,322 | 32 | #1,169 |
| 1934 | — | — | 54 | #855 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,822 | 44 | #948 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,526 | 52 | #892 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,018 | 49 | #925 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,400 | 55 | #894 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,451 | 50 | #953 |
| 1928 | — | — | 56 | #891 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,099 | 44 | #1,060 |
| 1926 | — | — | 41 | #1,111 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,152 | 66 | #817 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,718 | 64 | #859 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,953 | 50 | #981 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,550 | 62 | #871 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,974 | 75 | #774 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,116 | 57 | #915 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,847 | 60 | #852 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,290 | 52 | #920 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,729 | 45 | #966 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,011 | 40 | #1,016 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,408 | 39 | #1,022 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,947 | 38 | #885 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,280 | 31 | #877 |
| 1912 | — | — | 19 | #1,063 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,540 | 12 | #994 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,455 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,099 |
| 1908 | — | — | 11 | #836 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,379 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,996 | 6 | #1,124 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,239 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #662 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,175 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #872 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,027 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,128 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #933 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #979 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #958 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #965 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #875 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).