Boys' name · since 1992
Kharon
Kharon has 236 recorded births since 1992 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2010 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 236
- total births
- 1992–2023
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 37%
- born in that decade
236 boys have been named Kharon since 1992, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kharon has 236 recorded births among boys since 1992, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1992 to 2023.
- 236 total births
- 1992–2023 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 37% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kharon's 236 recorded births place it above 74% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kharon's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kharon's SSA record in two at 2006 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1992, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2010 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kharon popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1992–2023
- Peak year (2010)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Kharon by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Kharon's strongest decade.
88 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Kharon births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
61 births
- 2000s
2000s
88 births
- 2010s
2010s
73 births
- 2020s 14
2020s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 88 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Kharon's decade-level peak was the 2000s (88 total births); usage has since declined to 14 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1992–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kharon: Baby Name Since 1992 - 236 Births, Peak 2010." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kharon. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kharon draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.