Keon
Keon was given to 108 boys in 2025, #1,578 among boys’ names; 9,275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,020 Americans named Keon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keon?
#1,578 among boys’ names, 2025
Keon fell from #1,314 in 2015 to #1,578 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 70.4 to 63.2 per million.
328 babies in 2003, the peak
Keon peaked in 2003, when 328 babies were given it (323 boys, #637 among boys’ names). The 108 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,578 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 181 | #1,157 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,254 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,151 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,259 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 137 | #1,316 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,343 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,391 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,203 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 146 | #1,256 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,314 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 169 | #1,132 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 187 | #1,033 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 202 | #977 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 215 | #938 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 239 | #882 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 289 | #771 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 254 | #841 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 269 | #774 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 271 | #746 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 270 | #711 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 323 | #637 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 316 | #625 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 283 | #655 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 282 | #645 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 252 | #671 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 270 | #649 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 210 | #732 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 220 | #715 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 218 | #721 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 230 | #684 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 199 | #737 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 182 | #772 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 178 | #766 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 154 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 154 | #799 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 131 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 133 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 114 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 128 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 138 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 118 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 126 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 107 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 104 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 93 | #911 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 77 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,577 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,913 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,051 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,275 Americans recorded as Keon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 108 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Keon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keon, and how old are they?
9,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 9,275 Americans ever recorded as Keon. The median Keon alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 6,703 people named Keon (185 women and girls, 6,518 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,950 |
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 Keon born?
The states with the most babies named Keon are Texas, California and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,238 | 0.5× |
| California | 14 | #1,338 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,306 | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 6 | #704 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,183 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #1,908 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 5 | #935 | 0.7× |
Where Keon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keon is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1970 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Keon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,261 babies since 1880, Keon is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 501 babies (22%), again the second most given.
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 Keon
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 Keon and names like it
- Compare Keon and KenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeon peaked in 2003.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keon since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Keon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.