Keivon
Masculine · “Persian "Saturn”
Keyvan is Persian for the planet Saturn. Persian named the planets for its own figures the way Latin did for Roman gods — Bahram is Mars, Nahid is Venus, Tir is Mercury — and all of them are used as personal names in Iran today.
How old is the name Keivon?
Keivon first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Keivon alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 500 people named Keivon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keivon most popular?
Keivon peaked in 2000, reaching #2805 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 4,874 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kaiamanu to Keivon
The story of Keivon
Planet-naming is one of the clearest cases of cultural translation in the ancient world. Babylonian astronomers assigned the visible planets to gods; Greeks matched them to their own — the star of Kronos, of Zeus, of Ares — and Romans translated again to Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. Persian took a partly independent route, keeping Keyvan from a Mesopotamian source for Saturn while naming Mars Bahram after a Zoroastrian figure of victory and Venus Nahid after Anahita. India did the same with Shani, Mangala and Shukra. The names are still ordinary personal names in each of those languages. The American figures for Keivon peak in 2000.
Meaningscholars disagree
Persian "Saturn"; or a modern American coinage
Persian Keyvan names the planet Saturn, borrowed ultimately from Akkadian kaiamanu, the steady one, an appropriate name for the slowest-moving visible planet. The American Keivon is more likely a formation on the Ke- prefix with the -von ending, on the model of Devon and Kevon. The two are unrelated and the spelling does not distinguish them.
How the name formed
- kaiamanu
- Keyvan
- Keivon
Related forms: کیوان · Keyvan · Kevon
Pronouncing Keivon
KAY-von
Two syllables, stress on the first in American use. Persian Keyvan is key-VAHN with the stress on the second syllable, which is the regular Persian pattern.
Nicknames for Keivon
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
- 1988
- Most boys named
- 200032 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2805reached in 2000
- Change vs 2023
- −16.7%10 in 2025, from 12
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.
Keivon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- کیوان in Persian — transliteration
- Keyvan in English — spelling variant
- Kevon in English — related form
Keivons among us
people named Keivon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Keivon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keivon
- #7679
- Keivon on the 2025 chart
- #902
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keivon went to 10 boys in 2025, but Keyvon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 26, which makes it the 902nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,777 places above the chart.
- Keyvon16
- Keivon10
About 1 boy in 65,695 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Keivon 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 Perkins test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keivon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Perkins climbed just as high around 1921, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Perkins's path sketches the road Keivon is walking now.
Keivon 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
Keivon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keivon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Persian reading is settled and unusually striking: a planet.
- Von and Kev are ready short forms.
- It is read correctly on sight by English speakers.
- Two unrelated origins produce nearly the same spelling.
- Persian and American speakers stress it differently.
- Kevon and Keyvan are competing spellings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keivons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Keivon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keivon?
- Keivon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Keyvon is the more common one — 16 births in 2025 against 10 for Keivon.
- How popular is the name Keivon in 2025?
- Keivon ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keivon?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Keivon — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keivon with classmates?
- Keivon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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