Kypton
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kypton has been given to 201 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Kypton, 2022
1 in 423,000
Kypton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kypton?
Kypton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 423,000
- 8 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 293,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kypton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kypton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kyptons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kypton was born before 2013 — so the typical Kypton is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 79.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 201
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 79.6% of all recorded uses (160).
Is Kypton 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (42)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kypton
Kypton is not the most common spelling — Keaton is, with 27.5% against Kypton'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.
Kypton around the world
Where Kypton 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.
- Canada2009–2015#2,414in 2015
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kypton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kypton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kypton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.