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Keyon

#2,340 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Keyon has been given to 6,020 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,340 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 249 recorded.

Babies named Keyon, 2025

1 in 56,200

Keyon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keyon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keyon means

Keyon is a given name.

The naming story behind Keyon

Wikidata records Keyon as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q56021236, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,919 boys were recorded with the name Keyon between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 249 in 2002; its best national rank was #713 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,156 in 2020 to #2,340 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,499 in 2015 to #2,340 in 2025.

In the United States, 101 girls were recorded with the name Keyon between 1973 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,353 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Keyon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 56,200
59 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,340
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keyon 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 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keyon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keyons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keyon was born before 2004 — so the typical Keyon is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,919
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (2,213).

Is Keyon 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
−335
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−184
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−841
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.7%
Peak was 2002 (249)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#713
2002

Spellings of Keyon

Keyon is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 65.2% against Keyon's 0.33%.

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 Keyon is used

Across 2016–2025, Keyon was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 31,862 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 10,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Michigan1 in 20,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 25,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 25,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

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.

Keyon around the world

Where Keyon 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
    2002–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Keyon

People whose public names include Keyon, 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.

Keyon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,340
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 184
Best rank ever
#713
2002
Peak year
2002
249 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,919
Count in 2025
59

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,353
1973
Peak year
1981
9 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
101
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keyon

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

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Names with a curve like Keyon

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

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Sibling names for Keyon

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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