Kamon
Kamon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,953 among boys’ names; 334 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kamon?
#12,953 among boys’ names, 2025
Kamon fell from #8,374 in 2015 to #12,953 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 2.9 per million.
15 babies in 2011, the peak
Kamon peaked in 2011, when 15 boys were given it, #5,814 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,953 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,096 | 7.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,067 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,402 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,470 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,864 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,931 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,374 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,144 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,292 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | #5,814 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,206 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,029 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,467 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,568 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,720 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,981 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,760 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,496 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,338 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,911 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,436 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,882 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,560 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,689 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,806 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,323 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,677 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,564 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,106 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,747 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,589 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,552 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,640 | 3.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,206 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,755 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kamon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamon, and how old are they?
An estimated 327 Americans named Kamon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 347 people named Kamon (20 women and girls, 327 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 1,830 babies since 1880, Kamon is the third most given (18% of them).
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 Kamon
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 Kamon and names like it
- Compare Kamon and KamenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKamon peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kamon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.