Cleon — #8979 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cleon

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,993 babies named Cleon between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cleon currently holds the #8979 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Cleon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 189 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cleon performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 565 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Cleon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 97 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Cleon in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cleon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,993 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.