Falon
Falon was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,318 among girls’ names; 2,066 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Falon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 22 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Falon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Falon?
#12,318 among girls’ names, 2025
Falon fell from #4,094 in 2015 to #12,318 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 4.4 per million.
182 babies in 1983, the peak
Falon peaked in 1983, when 182 girls were given it, #843 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,318 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,538 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,589 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,192 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,751 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,422 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,249 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,614 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,622 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,248 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,094 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,278 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,372 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,241 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,260 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,843 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,270 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,300 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,997 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,431 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,322 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,626 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,578 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,833 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,570 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,082 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,524 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,754 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,046 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,859 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,246 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,645 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,403 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,389 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,407 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,418 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,868 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 95 | #1,361 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 99 | #1,333 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 163 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 182 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 165 | #915 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,968 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Falon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,066 Americans recorded as Falon, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Falon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Falon, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,066 Americans ever recorded as Falon. The median Falon alive today is 35 years old; half are between 22 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,722 people named Falon (1,600 women and girls, 122 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,965 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 519 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 245 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Falon born?
The states with the most babies named Falon are Texas, Illinois and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 148 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 57 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 49 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Falon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Falon?
Falon is a less common spelling of Fallon: SSA has recorded 2,066 Falon and 12,253 Fallon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,307 babies since 1880, Falon is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 459 babies (1.5%), the sixth 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 Falon
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 Falon and names like it
- Compare Falon and FallonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sFalon peaked in 1983.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Falon since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Falon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Falon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.