Yon
Yon was last recorded in 2004, when 6 babies were given it; 87 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yon is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,314, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1971, the peak
Yon peaked in 1971, when 11 boys were given it, #3,139 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #11,314 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,791 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,510 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,324 | 2.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,182 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,497 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,978 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,139 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,516 | 4.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,963 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #4,044 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,058 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #4,032 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yon, and how old are they?
An estimated 76 Americans named Yon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,540 people named Yon (1,104 women and girls, 436 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Yon rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 4,411 babies since 1880, Yon is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 308 babies recorded by SSA was a Yon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Yon and names like it
- Compare Yon and YohanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sYon peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Yon.
- Names starting with YMost given first.