Ion
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 314since 1928
Ion over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Ion has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
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| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
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First appearance
1928
The first year at least five boys were named Ion! It came in at #4,151, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ion is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Ion in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 2,169 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #6,143)
- 477 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #6,143)
- 923 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
41 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1928
- Peaked 1969 at #3,595 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1970, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 114,038
- Highest: 1 in 114,038 boys born in 2023 were named Ion (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,595 in 1969, was only 1 in 255,453 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 27.7% of all boys named Ion (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,151 (1928) | #4,151 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 17 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,893 |
| 1970s | 31 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,694 |
| 1980s | 20 | #4,593 (1982) | #5,226 |
| 1990s | 40 | #6,843 (1998) | #8,329 |
| 2000s | 50 | #7,831 (2003) | #9,060 |
| 2010s | 87 | #6,406 (2019) | #8,876 |
| 2020s | 64 | #5,927 (2023) | #7,916 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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