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Seon

Boys' name

Good, virtuous or declare, announce

Seon has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2006, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Seon, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seon: meaning, origin, and history

Good, virtuous or declare, announce

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Seon means

Seon means “good, virtuous or declare, announce”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Seon is used in Korean.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sʌn/ for Seon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 boys were recorded with the name Seon between 1969 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,305 in 1972.

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 Seon?

Seon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seon 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seon was born before 1994 — so the typical Seon is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Seon 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 2006 (11)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,305
1972

Spellings of Seon

Seon is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 18.9% against Seon'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.

Seon around the world

Where Seon 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018

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

Seon 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,305
1972
Peak year
2006
11 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Seon

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

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Sibling names for Seon

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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