Keilon
Keilon was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keilon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keilon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,434, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2006, the peak
Keilon peaked in 2006, when 16 boys were given it, #5,425 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,434 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,481 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,499 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,495 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,387 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,133 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,419 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,465 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,459 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,492 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #9,350 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,425 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,714 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,282 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,553 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,071 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,952 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,126 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,798 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,313 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,954 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,482 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,397 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,691 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,480 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,964 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,901 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,916 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,323 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keilon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keilon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keilon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keilon, and how old are they?
An estimated 226 Americans named Keilon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 216 people named Keilon (4 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below 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 39,279 babies since 1880, Keilon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 612 babies recorded by SSA was a Keilon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keilon
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 Keilon and names like it
- Compare Keilon and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeilon peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keilon since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Keilon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keilon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.