Kion
Kion was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,625 among boys’ names; 1,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Kion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kion?
#2,625 among boys’ names, 2025
Kion rose from #4,236 in 2015 to #2,625 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 29.3 per million.
128 babies in 2017, the peak
Kion peaked in 2017, when 128 boys were given it, #1,380 among boys’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,625 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,937 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 54 | #2,496 | 31.6 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,695 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,288 | 34.9 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,569 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,507 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,929 | 42.4 |
| 2017 | 128 | #1,380 | 69.2 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,439 | 63.8 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,236 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,784 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,840 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,387 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,165 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,056 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,443 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,648 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,962 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,165 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,131 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,192 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,529 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,619 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,788 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,373 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,527 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,242 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,408 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,066 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,376 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,282 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,201 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,712 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,356 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,850 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,396 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,058 | 6.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,079 | 5.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,905 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,901 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,521 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,580 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,457 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,401 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,300 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,928 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kion, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,311 Americans ever recorded as Kion. The median Kion alive today is 10 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 861 people named Kion (38 women and girls, 823 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,002 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 38 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 354 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 737 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,024 babies since 1880, Kion is the sixth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 1,576 babies (3.2%), again the sixth 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 Kion
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 Kion and names like it
- Compare Kion and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKion peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kion since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kion.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kion alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.