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Cleon

#9,896 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

To recount, celebrate

Cleon has been given to 3,189 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #9,896 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 75 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Cleon, 2025

1 in 474,000

Cleon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Cleon over time

In 2025, Cleon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18842025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Cleon: meaning, origin, and history

To recount, celebrate

Ancient Greek

What Cleon means

Cleon means “to recount, celebrate”, associated with kléō.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλέων (Kléōn), from κλέω (kléō, “to recount, celebrate”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Cleon (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Cleon is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Cleon comes through Ancient Greek Κλέων.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,000 boys were recorded with the name Cleon between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1921; its best national rank was #662 in 1903.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,153 in 2015 to #9,896 in 2025.

In the United States, 189 girls were recorded with the name Cleon between 1905 and 1942. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,995 in 1905.

How common is Cleon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,896
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cleon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleon was born before 1941 — so the typical Cleon is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.8% of all recorded uses (565).

Is Cleon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−745
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,743
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.3%
Peak was 1921 (75)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#662
1903

Spellings of Cleon

Cleon is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 21.6% against Cleon's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cleon is used

Across 1910–2025, Cleon was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 290,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cleon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cleon around the world

Where Cleon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2016–2025
    #2,625
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1946–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cleon

People whose public names include Cleon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cleon in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cleon. Linked forms have their own page here.

Κλέων

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cleon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,896
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#662
1903
Peak year
1921
75 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,000
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,995
1905
Peak year
1917
11 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
1942
All-time count
189
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cleon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BreonCleveCletusCleoDaveonClellDameonClemClementeJaveonCletisClemonJaceonAveonClementKeonDeleonSimeonTheonClemensDeveonJayveonTreveonClete

Names with a curve like Cleon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cleon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RudolfAudreyMalvinEnnisBertrandJoyFarrisRaoulGlendonArdellChesleyBurnell

Sibling names for Cleon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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