Meaning not yet researched.
Keyon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #713 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #713 in 2002; #2,340 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keyon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,340 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #713.
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Keyon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #713 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 249 (2002).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Keyon, making it the 2,340th most common boys’ name of the year, down 335 places from #2,005 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 77 boys named Keyon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #713, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 249. For comparison, it was #1,499 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keyon in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 16 babies. In all, 6,020 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,213 babies named Keyon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 804 US boys were named Keyon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keyon ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #991 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), Keon (9,275 babies since 1880), Kyan (3,955 babies since 1880) and Keion (2,869 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keyaan, Keeyan and Keyaun 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: Keyaan (252), Keeyan (54), Keyaun (43), Keyonne (27), Keyhan (8).
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 Keyon 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 6 | #991 | #655 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,554 | #1,065 |
| New York | 5 | #1,911 | #1,418 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 59 | #2,340 |
| 2024 | — | — | 77 | #2,005 |
| 2023 | — | — | 76 | #2,011 |
| 2022 | — | — | 73 | #2,068 |
| 2021 | — | — | 83 | #1,863 |
| 2020 | — | — | 65 | #2,156 |
| 2019 | — | — | 65 | #2,180 |
| 2018 | — | — | 98 | #1,652 |
| 2017 | — | — | 102 | #1,590 |
| 2016 | — | — | 106 | #1,560 |
| 2015 | — | — | 111 | #1,499 |
| 2014 | — | — | 133 | #1,320 |
| 2013 | — | — | 153 | #1,178 |
| 2012 | — | — | 172 | #1,087 |
| 2011 | — | — | 194 | #1,002 |
| 2010 | — | — | 203 | #972 |
| 2009 | — | — | 212 | #951 |
| 2008 | — | — | 209 | #960 |
| 2007 | — | — | 221 | #904 |
| 2006 | — | — | 224 | #882 |
| 2005 | — | — | 216 | #852 |
| 2004 | — | — | 223 | #808 |
| 2003 | — | — | 231 | #765 |
| 2002 | — | — | 249 | #713 |
| 2001 | — | — | 207 | #810 |
| 2000 | — | — | 221 | #757 |
| 1999 | — | — | 165 | #908 |
| 1998 | — | — | 140 | #984 |
| 1997 | — | — | 147 | #926 |
| 1996 | — | — | 125 | #1,004 |
| 1995 | — | — | 119 | #1,020 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,035 | 107 | #1,084 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,182 | 80 | #1,273 |
| 1992 | — | — | 103 | #1,087 |
| 1991 | — | — | 98 | #1,111 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,112 | 86 | #1,178 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,175 | 67 | #1,342 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,790 | 47 | #1,566 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,517 |
| 1986 | — | — | 36 | #1,746 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,942 | 49 | #1,404 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,739 | 53 | #1,273 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,639 | 45 | #1,411 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,814 | 54 | #1,269 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,064 | 69 | #1,098 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,658 | 55 | #1,250 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,531 | 54 | #1,257 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,518 | 47 | #1,335 |
| 1977 | — | — | 42 | #1,420 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,561 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,814 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,320 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,355 | 5 | #5,499 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,376 |
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).