Kayvon
Masculine · “Saturn”
Kayvon is the planet Saturn. Persian Keyvan names it, and behind that is one of the oldest continuously used words anywhere — the Babylonians called Saturn Kayamanu, the steady one, because it crosses the sky more slowly than anything else the eye can see.
How old is the name Kayvon?
Kayvon first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Kayvon alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,400 people named Kayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kayvon most popular?
Kayvon peaked in 1996, reaching #2254 nationally. Today it ranks #2718, 464 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Kayamanu to Kayvon
The story of Kayvon
Persian keeps a full set of names for the planets, and Keyvan is Saturn's. It came into Persian from Akkadian by way of Middle Persian, which makes it one of the longer unbroken word-histories in any living naming tradition — Babylonian astronomers to a child in California, with no gap in between. Saturn is the slow planet, the outermost the naked eye can find, and the name it carried in Mesopotamia meant exactly that steadiness. Kayvon and Keyvan are the two common transliterations that reach United States records, mostly with Iranian families.
Meaning
Saturn — the steady, enduring one
Persian Keyvan is the name of the planet Saturn, taken from Middle Persian Kewan and, before that, from Akkadian Kayamanu, 'the steady, the enduring'. The sense is astronomical, the word is very old, and the reading is not in dispute.
How the name formed
- Kayamanu
- Kewan
- Keyvan
- Kayvon
Related forms: Keyvan · Kayvan · Kaivan
Pronouncing Kayvon
kay-VAHN
Two syllables with the stress on the second in Persian. American English often moves it forward to KAY-von, and both are heard in Iranian-American families.
Nicknames for Kayvon
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 201355 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2254reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- +20.5%47 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kayvon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Keyvan in Persian — transliteration
- Kayvan in Persian — spelling variant
- Kaivan in Persian — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Ohio.
Kayvons among us
people named Kayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 36,342 born in 2025 was named Kayvon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kayvon
- #2718
- Kayvon on the 2025 chart
- #870
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kayvon went to 47 boys in 2025, but Kaivon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 58, which makes it the 870th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,848 places above the chart.
- Kayvon47
- Kaivon11
About 1 boy in 29,450 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 36,342 for Kayvon itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hodges test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kayvon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hodges climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hodges's path sketches the road Kayvon is walking now.
Kayvon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kayvon is headed
Kayvon should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kayvon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kayvon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- An exact, documented and genuinely unusual meaning — few names can point to a Babylonian source word.
- Six letters, no silent ones, and English speakers say it correctly at first sight.
- Kay is a ready-made short form that needs no explaining to anyone.
- Keyvan, Kayvan and Kayvon are all in use, so the spelling gets asked for.
- The stress moves between the Persian and the American sayings, and the child will end up answering to both.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kayvons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Kayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kayvon?
- Kayvon is the most-used spelling in US records — 47 of the 58 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kaivon.
- How popular is the name Kayvon in 2025?
- Kayvon ranks #2718 among US boy names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kayvon?
- About 1 in every 36,342 US boys born in 2025 was named Kayvon — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kayvon with classmates?
- Kayvon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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