Keion
Masculine
Keion is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,859 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
Keion is an American name of the last few decades, built on a Ke- opening and an -ion ending that both had a very productive run. It is short, it is easy to say, and it belongs to a documented moment in American naming.
How old is the name Keion?
Keion first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Keion alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 2,800 people named Keion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keion most popular?
Keion peaked in 1996, reaching #868 nationally. Today it ranks #3181, 2,313 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keion
Our reading rather than the record's. Keion is a good example of a name that reads as ancient and is not: the -ion ending has a genuinely Greek ring to it, and English speakers meeting the name cold often assume a classical source. What is actually behind it is an American workshop of the 1980s and 1990s that built dozens of names on a small set of openings and endings, deliberately and in the open. The Greek echo is real; the Greek ancestry is not.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language is established. The construction is documented: a Ke- opening that produced Keon, Keshawn and Kevon in American records, and an -ion ending shared with Deion, Deshaun and Javion in the same decades.
Pronouncing Keion
KEE-on
Two syllables. Some families stress the first and some the second, and both are in use.
Nicknames for Keion
Moderate
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
- 1975
- Most boys named
- 1996159 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #868reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −14.0%37 in 2025, from 43
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.
Keion in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Ohio.
Keions among us
people named Keion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was named Keion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keion
- #3181
- Keion on the 2025 chart
- #827
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keion went to 37 boys in 2025, but Keyon and Keyyon are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 101, which makes it the 827th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,354 places above the chart.
- Keyon59
- Keion37
- Keyyon5
About 1 boy in 16,912 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 46,164 for Keion 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 Reyes test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Reyes climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Reyes's path sketches the road Keion is walking now.
Keion 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 Keion is headed
Keion 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.
Keion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly on sight by English speakers, which not every modern coinage manages.
- Two syllables and five letters — easy to write and easy to shout.
- It belongs to a recognized American naming tradition rather than standing alone.
- Keon, Kion and Keion are all in the records and none is dominant.
- The stress is unsettled, so two pronunciations will follow him.
- There is no meaning to offer beyond the construction.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,800 people named Keion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keion?
- Keion is one of 3 recorded spellings. Keyon is the more common one — 59 births in 2025 against 37 for Keion.
- How popular is the name Keion in 2025?
- Keion ranks #3181 among US boy names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keion?
- About 1 in every 46,164 US boys born in 2025 was named Keion — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keion with classmates?
- Keion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Keion
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