Kion
#2,604 for boys in 2025, 50 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 128 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,311since 1975
Kion over time
Rank among boys' names. Kion has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,604 | 50 |
| 2024 | #2,915 | 43 |
| 2023 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2022 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | #2,277 | 61 |
| 2020 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | #1,920 | 77 |
| 2017 | #1,378 | 128 |
| 2016 | #1,433 | 121 |
| 2015 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
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| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
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| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kion! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kion is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#675 · 1 in 4,418
- Georgia#925 · 1 in 6,711
- New York#987 · 1 in 8,130
- Florida#1,149 · 1 in 10,741
- Texas#1,275 · 1 in 13,551
Best ever in a state: #675 in Maryland, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #675 | 6 | 1 in 4,418 |
| Georgia | #925 | 8 | 1 in 6,711 |
| New York | #987 | 12 | 1 in 8,130 |
| Florida | #1,149 | 9 | 1 in 10,741 |
| Texas | #1,275 | 13 | 1 in 13,551 |
| Illinois | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 12,386 |
| California | #1,434 | 12 | 1 in 17,976 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kion
- 311 spots since 2024 (#2,915 → #2,604)
- 58 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #2,604)
- 1,575 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #2,604)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2017 at #1,378 (128 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,461 boys born in 2017 were named Kion (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,162 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.2% of all boys named Kion (501) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 30 | #4,164 (1977) | #5,136 |
| 1980s | 54 | #3,430 (1980) | #4,715 |
| 1990s | 205 | #2,346 (1995) | #3,610 |
| 2000s | 214 | #3,299 (2000) | #4,201 |
| 2010s | 501 | #1,378 (2017) | #3,607 |
| 2020s | 307 | #2,277 (2021) | #2,583 |
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.
Kion in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,461 of them was named Kion, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,373Mikah129
- #1,373Phineas129
- #1,373Trystan129
- #1,378Kion128
- #1,378Benaiah128
- #1,378Cassian128
- #1,378Oskar128
- #1,384Atharv127
- #1,384Beaux127
- #1,384Beck127
Tied with 5 names at #1,378; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.