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Platon

#9,480 in 2025Boys' name

Platonic (relating to Plato), through Πλάτων

Platon has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #9,480 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Platon, 2025

1 in 414,000

Platon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Platon: meaning, origin, and history

Platonic (relating to Plato), through Πλάτων

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Platon means

Platon belongs to the name family reached through Platon → Πλάτων. Its meaning is “Platonic (relating to Plato)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from French Platon, Greek Πλάτων (Pláton) or Russian and Ukrainian Платон (Platon).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Platon is used in English.

Platon comes through Greek Πλάτων and ru,uk Платон.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Πλάτων.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 boys were recorded with the name Platon between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,360 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,558 in 2020 to #9,480 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,342 in 2015 to #9,480 in 2025.

How common is Platon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,480
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Platon 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Platon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Platons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Platon was born before 2017 — so the typical Platon is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Platon 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
−2,329
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−922
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+862
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.8%
Peak was 2014 (23)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,360
2014

Spellings of Platon

Platon is not the most common spelling — Clayton is, with 37.4% against Platon's 0.05%.

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 Platon is used

Across 1910–2025, Platon was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 355,902 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Platon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Platon around the world

Where Platon 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
    2012–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2022
    #6,513
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

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.

Platon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 922
Best rank ever
#4,360
2014
Peak year
2014
23 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Platon

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

KaytonDaitonBextonDaetonMastonBoltonHaltonHastonRentonKystonKostonAcetonAxetonLuxtonStatonCostonKastonGraytonTraxtonThaxtonKenstonKinstonBretonPlato

Sibling names for Platon

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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