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Leyon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Leyon has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2017. 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 2017, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Leyon, 2022

1 in 677,000

Leyon over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leyon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leyon means

Leyon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Leyon is used in Walloon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Léon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Walloon, Leyon is pronounced /lɛ.jɔ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Leyon between 2017 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2017; its best national rank was #10,345 in 2017.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leyon?

Leyon 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 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leyon 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leyon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leyons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leyon was born before 2019 — so the typical Leyon is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Leyon 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (7)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,345
2017

Spellings of Leyon

Leyon is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 25.4% against Leyon's <0.01%.

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.

Leyon around the world

Where Leyon 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    2025–2025
    #5,490
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Leyon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,345
2017
Peak year
2017
7 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leyon

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

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Sibling names for Leyon

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

Explore around Leyon

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