Keyon
Keyon was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,340 among boys’ names; 6,020 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,870 Americans named Keyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keyon?
#2,340 among boys’ names, 2025
Keyon fell from #1,499 in 2015 to #2,340 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.9 to 34.5 per million.
249 babies in 2002, the peak
Keyon peaked in 2002, when 249 boys were given it, #713 among boys’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,340 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,005 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,010 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,067 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 83 | #1,862 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,156 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,179 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,652 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,590 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,560 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,499 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,320 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,178 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 172 | #1,087 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 194 | #1,002 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 203 | #972 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 212 | #951 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 209 | #960 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 221 | #904 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 224 | #882 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 216 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 223 | #807 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 231 | #764 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 249 | #713 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 207 | #809 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 221 | #756 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 165 | #906 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 140 | #981 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 147 | #924 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,002 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,017 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,080 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,268 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,083 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,173 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 47 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,744 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,335 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,318 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,376 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,020 Americans recorded as Keyon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 59 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 Keyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keyon, and how old are they?
5,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,020 Americans ever recorded as Keyon. The median Keyon alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,297 people named Keyon (139 women and girls, 4,158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,501 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 297 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Keyon born?
The states with the most babies named Keyon are Florida, Tennessee and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,554 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #991 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #1,911 | 0.7× |
Where Keyon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keyon is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1972 it was given 2.6 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 Keyon 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, Keyon is the fourth most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 501 babies (12%), the third 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 Keyon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Brando | 2,102 | |
| Josemanuel | 1,302 | |
| Nikhil | 5,404 | |
| Cristopher | 11,898 | |
| Jevin | 1,013 | |
| Favian | 2,845 |
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 Keyon and names like it
- Compare Keyon and KenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeyon peaked in 2002.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keyon since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Keyon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keyon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.