Kevon
Masculine · “gentle birth”
Kevon is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 5,447 boys against 56 girls since 1880.
Kevon is Kevin rebuilt with an American ending, and Kevin is one of the gentler Irish names — Caoimhín is caomh, kind or beloved, with a diminutive on it.
How old is the name Kevon?
Kevon first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Kevon alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 5,300 people named Kevon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kevon most popular?
Kevon peaked in 2000, reaching #393 nationally. Today it ranks #2991, 2,598 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From caomh to Kevon
The story of Kevon
Kevin of Glendalough was a sixth-century hermit who founded a monastery in a valley in Wicklow, and the stories about him are largely about stillness — the one where a blackbird nests in his outstretched hand is the best known. He is a patron saint of Dublin. The name spread from Ireland into general English use in the twentieth century and became very common. Kevon belongs to the respellings that follow, and it has been most at home in African-American and Caribbean families.
Meaning
gentle birth; beloved one
Irish Caoimhin joins caomh, 'gentle, kind, beloved', to a diminutive ending, and it is often glossed 'of gentle birth' or 'handsome birth'. The reading is documented. Kevon is a modern American respelling of Kevin with an -on ending in place of the -in, and it carries the same meaning by inheritance rather than by its own construction.
How the name formed
- caomh
- Caoimhín
- Kevin
- Kevon
Related forms: Caoimhín · Kevin · Kévin
Pronouncing Kevon
KEV-on
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a fuller second vowel than Kevin has. kuh-VON, with the stress at the end, is also heard and both circulate in American use.
Nicknames for Kevon
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
- 1950
- Most boys named
- 2000649 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #393reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- −8.9%41 in 2025, from 45
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.
Kevon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Caoimhín in Irish — related form
- Kevin in English — spelling variant
- Kévin in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Texas.
Kevons among us
people named Kevon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 41,660 born in 2025 was named Kevon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Robby test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kevon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Robby climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Robby's path sketches the road Kevon is walking now.
Kevon 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 Kevon is headed
Kevon 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.
Kevon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kevon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kev is a ready short form shared with a very well-established name.
- A documented Irish origin with a genuinely gentle meaning behind it.
- Two syllables that every English speaker says correctly at first sight.
- Kevin is far more common and this name will be corrected to it in writing.
- The two stress patterns both circulate, so the child will be correcting people.
- Kevon, Kevonn and Kevaughn are all in use and none is standard.
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Masculine · #2991 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Kevons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,300 people named Kevon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kevon in 2025?
- Kevon ranks #2991 among US boy names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kevon?
- About 1 in every 41,660 US boys born in 2025 was named Kevon — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kevon with classmates?
- Kevon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kevon
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