Meaning not yet researched.
Keon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #625 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #625 in 2002; #1,578 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,578 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #625.
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Keon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 boys in 2025. Peak: #625 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 323 (2003).
In 2025, 108 US boys were named Keon, making it the 1,578th most common boys’ name of the year, down 421 places from #1,157 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 181 boys named Keon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #625, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 323, in 2003. For comparison, it was #1,314 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keon in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 9,275 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,801 babies named Keon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,474 US boys were named Keon; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 181. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,816 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keon ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #704 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ken (33,043 babies since 1880), Kian (13,568 babies since 1880), Keyon (6,020 babies since 1880) and Kyan (3,955 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keiyon, Keyion and Keeyon 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: Keiyon (154), Keyion (115), Keeyon (83), Keyonn (29), Keonne (22), Keyone (21), Keayon (5), Kyyon (5), Keyyon (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 Keon 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 6 | #704 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #935 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,183 | #958 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,238 | #2,265 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,306 | #938 |
| California | 14 | #1,338 | #1,814 |
| New York | 5 | #1,908 | #1,200 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 108 | #1,578 |
| 2024 | — | — | 181 | #1,157 |
| 2023 | — | — | 154 | #1,254 |
| 2022 | — | — | 181 | #1,151 |
| 2021 | — | — | 152 | #1,259 |
| 2020 | — | — | 137 | #1,316 |
| 2019 | — | — | 134 | #1,343 |
| 2018 | — | — | 127 | #1,391 |
| 2017 | — | — | 154 | #1,203 |
| 2016 | — | — | 146 | #1,256 |
| 2015 | — | — | 135 | #1,314 |
| 2014 | — | — | 169 | #1,132 |
| 2013 | — | — | 187 | #1,033 |
| 2012 | — | — | 192 | #1,020 |
| 2011 | — | — | 202 | #977 |
| 2010 | — | — | 215 | #938 |
| 2009 | — | — | 239 | #882 |
| 2008 | — | — | 289 | #771 |
| 2007 | — | — | 254 | #841 |
| 2006 | — | — | 269 | #774 |
| 2005 | — | — | 271 | #746 |
| 2004 | — | — | 270 | #711 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,093 | 323 | #637 |
| 2002 | — | — | 316 | #625 |
| 2001 | — | — | 283 | #655 |
| 2000 | — | — | 282 | #645 |
| 1999 | — | — | 252 | #673 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,275 | 270 | #649 |
| 1997 | — | — | 210 | #733 |
| 1996 | — | — | 220 | #716 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,413 | 218 | #724 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,546 | 230 | #685 |
| 1993 | — | — | 199 | #739 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,116 | 182 | #774 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,245 | 178 | #770 |
| 1990 | — | — | 154 | #823 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,250 | 154 | #802 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,046 | 131 | #830 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,269 | 133 | #808 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,012 | 114 | #850 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,932 | 128 | #786 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,068 | 138 | #741 |
| 1983 | — | — | 118 | #807 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,167 | 126 | #785 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,533 | 107 | #854 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,580 | 104 | #874 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,001 | 93 | #911 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,644 | 77 | #986 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,354 | 66 | #1,066 |
| 1976 | — | — | 58 | #1,117 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,741 | 33 | #1,578 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,236 | 28 | #1,730 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,792 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,915 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,053 |
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).