Kiyon
Kiyon was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,126 among boys’ names; 568 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiyon?
#5,126 among boys’ names, 2025
Kiyon fell from #4,814 in 2015 to #5,126 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 11.1 per million.
43 babies in 2016, the peak
Kiyon peaked in 2016, when 43 boys were given it, #2,814 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,126 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,046 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,578 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,335 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,861 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,351 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,460 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,215 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,416 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,814 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,814 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,627 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,256 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,489 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,848 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,910 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,675 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,532 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,118 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,782 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,056 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,787 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,530 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,096 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,251 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,692 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,770 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,091 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,893 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,427 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,712 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,199 | 3.1 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,907 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,743 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiyon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiyon, and how old are they?
An estimated 560 Americans named Kiyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 400 people named Kiyon (30 women and girls, 370 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 25,803 babies since 1880, Kiyon is the seventh most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 1,441 babies (1.3%), again the seventh 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 Kiyon
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 Kiyon and names like it
- Compare Kiyon and KianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKiyon peaked in 2016.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiyon since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kiyon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kiyon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.