Meaning not yet researched.
Kayvon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,276 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,276 in 1996; #2,735 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kayvon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,735 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #2,276.
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Kayvon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,276 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 55 (2023).
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Kayvon, making it the 2,735th most common boys’ name of the year, up 400 places from #3,135 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 39 boys named Kayvon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,276, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 55, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,942 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayvon in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 1,418 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 397 babies named Kayvon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 448 US boys were named Kayvon; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,342 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kayvon ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,973 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kavin (2,934 babies since 1880), Kavon (2,827 babies since 1880) and Kavion (1,405 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cayvion 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cayvion (17).
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 Kayvon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #1,973 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,340 | #2,149 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 47 | #2,735 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,135 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,458 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,541 |
| 2021 | — | — | 53 | #2,515 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,055 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,506 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,137 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,217 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,192 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,942 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,572 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,316 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,666 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,140 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,854 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,824 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,565 |
| 2007 | — | — | 41 | #2,896 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,059 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,479 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,116 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,241 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,453 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,512 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,361 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,772 |
| 1998 | — | — | 23 | #3,347 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,717 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,276 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,532 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #2,992 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,578 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,639 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,060 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,012 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,167 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,284 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,631 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,668 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,207 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,847 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,026 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,004 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,767 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,484 |
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).