How many Kevions are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Kevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How popular is the name Kevion in 2025?

Kevion ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Kevion?

About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Kevion — 10 in all.

Will my child share the name Kevion with classmates?

Kevion will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Kevion

Masculine · “Irish "gentle”

Kevion is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,097 boys against 5 girls since 1880.

#7679 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare10 boys in 2025

Kevin and Keeva are the same Irish word in two sexes. Caoimhín is the masculine diminutive of caomh, gentle or precious; Caoimhe is the feminine. Saint Kevin of Glendalough, who died around 618, carried the first, and the pair are as closely related as any two names can be.

How old is the name Kevion?

Kevion first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Kevion alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,100 people named Kevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Kevion most popular?

Kevion peaked in 2001, reaching #1871 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 5,808 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.

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Where it comes from

From caomh to Kevion

The story of Kevion

Kevin's modern career is unusual for the range of places it went. It was a mainly Irish name until the twentieth century, then spread through the English-speaking world, and then — remarkably — became one of the most popular boys' names in France in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and in Germany after that. In both countries it subsequently acquired a strong class association and became a target of jokes, to the point where French and German sociologists have studied the effect as a case of a name functioning as a social marker. That is a documented instance of a name's reputation changing in one country while remaining neutral in another. Kevion, the American extension, peaks in 2001.

Meaning

Irish "gentle, precious", with a diminutive

Kevin is the anglicization of Caoimhín, from caomh, gentle, kind or precious, with the diminutive ending -ín — so the name means something like little gentle one. Caoimhe, anglicized Keeva, is the feminine of the same word. Kevion is a modern American formation on Kev- with the -ion ending, and the compound has no separate documented meaning.

How the name formed

caomh
Caoimhín
Kevin
Kevion

Related forms: Caoimhín · Kevon · Kevian

Pronouncing Kevion

KEV-ee-on

Three syllables, stress on the first. Some families say kuh-VEE-on with the stress on the second; both are in use, and the spelling does not decide.

Nicknames for Kevion

Moderate

KevThe front clip, shared with Kevin and entirely conventional

VionThe back portion, said VEE-on, informal

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: 1989
Most boys named: 200861 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #1871reached in 2001
Change vs 2024: −50.0%10 in 2025, from 20

Kevion sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2008, with 61 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Kevion in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Caoimhín in Irish — related form
Kevon in English — spelling variant
Kevian in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.

Kevions among us

1,100

people named Kevion are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Kevion

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Efraim test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kevion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Efraim climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Efraim's path sketches the road Kevion is walking now.

40%chance Kevion will feel dated by 2040

Kevion, aligned on its peakEfraim· peak 1972not yet written

Kevion today is about where Efraim stood in 1996 — 24 years past a #1871-sized peak. By 2011, Efraim had settled around #2651.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Kevion 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

Kevion beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Kevion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Kevionthis name10#7679Early10#7679Obie10#7679Huston10#7679Knute10#7679

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

Kev is an immediate short form needing no explanation.
The stem descends from a genuine Irish name with a settled meaning.
It is read correctly on sight with nothing silent.

What to consider

Kevon and Kevian compete for a similar sound.
The stress placement varies between families.
The compound as a whole has no meaning to pass on.

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How many Kevions are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Kevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Kevion in 2025?: Kevion ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Kevion?: About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Kevion — 10 in all.
Will my child share the name Kevion with classmates?: Kevion will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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