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Yon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Yon has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1971, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Yon, 2004

1 in 637,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yon means

Yon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yon is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 87 boys were recorded with the name Yon between 1960 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,139 in 1971.

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 Yon?

Yon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 331,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,326 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yon 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 2004 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 441,326 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yon was born before 1971 — so the typical Yon is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
87
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Yon 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 1971 (11)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,139
1971

Yon around the world

Where Yon 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.

  • France
    1964–2023
    #4,782
    in 2023

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yon 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
#3,139
1971
Peak year
1971
11 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yon

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

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Sibling names for Yon

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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