Kalon
#4,792 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalon has been given to 1,079 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #4,792 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Kalon, 2025
1 in 158,000
Kalon over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kalon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,792
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalon was born before 2001 — so the typical Kalon is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 26.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,056
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (278).
Is Kalon 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
- −1,145
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −308
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,721
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.62×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.8%
- Peak was 1998 (37)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kalon
Kalon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 28.8% against Kalon's 0.03%.
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 Kalon is used
Across 1910–2025, Kalon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 587,805 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6Tennessee1 in —
- 7Texas1 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. Kalon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kalon around the world
Where Kalon 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 & Wales1996–2015#3,908in 2015
- France2015–2015#6,641in 2015
- Canada2013–2013#2,635in 2013
- South Australia1978–2006#657in 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.
Kalon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kalon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.