Eion
Eion was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,035 among boys’ names; 536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eion?
#11,035 among boys’ names, 2025
Eion fell from #7,197 in 2015 to #11,035 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 3.5 per million.
32 babies in 2000, the peak
Eion peaked in 2000, when 32 boys were given it, #2,819 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,035 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,386 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,875 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,938 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,013 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,575 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,290 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,964 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,805 | 6.5 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,197 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,746 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,724 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,784 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,337 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,814 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,864 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,844 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,627 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,915 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,185 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,763 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,015 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,820 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,878 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,819 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,127 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,949 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,926 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,442 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,592 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,528 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,460 | 5.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,432 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,248 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,700 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eion, and how old are they?
An estimated 526 Americans named Eion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 488 people named Eion (3 women and girls, 485 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,452 babies since 1880, Eion is the fifth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 225 babies (2.7%), the eighth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eion
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eion and names like it
- Compare Eion and EanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEion peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eion since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Eion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.