Yon

Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948

Peak · boys
1971 · 11 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
87
since 1960

Yon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Yon has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #2,973, 1971boys
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First appearance
1960

The first year at least five boys were named Yon! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Yon is popular in 1963

No state had 5 or more boys named Yon in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Yon
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2004
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 1971 at #2,973 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 4 yrs 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 160,768
  • Highest: 1 in 160,768 boys born in 1971 were named Yon (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 330,830 boys born in 2004 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
  • 47.1% of all boys named Yon (41) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s24#3,559 (1967)#3,631
1970s41#2,973 (1971)#3,717
1980s11#5,785 (1985)#6,012
1990s5#8,435 (1992)#8,435
2000s6#9,948 (2004)#9,948

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.

Yon in 1963

boys
#3,646
6 births · 1 in 338,513 boys

Top boys' names in 1963

  1. #1Michael83,771
  2. #2John78,636
  3. #3David78,444
  4. #4James71,294
  5. #5Robert70,007
  6. #6Mark49,342
  7. #7William44,453
  8. #8Richard40,772
  9. #9Thomas35,490
  10. #10Jeffrey31,701
  11. #3,646Yon6
More about 1963

boys

2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 338,513 of them was named Yon, which outranked 21.1% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yon
  1. #3,318Yvette7
  2. #3,318Zvi7
  3. #3,318Zygmunt7
  4. #3,646Yon6
  5. #3,646Abelino6
  6. #3,646Abran6
  7. #3,646Ainsley6
  8. #4,048Abbott5
  9. #4,048Abie5
  10. #4,048Abron5

Tied with 401 names at #3,646; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,551Tal#2,364 → #813
  2. ↑ 1,141Jaimie#1,962 → #821
  3. ↑ 540Stoney#1,038 → #498
  4. ↑ 364Pamela#1,311 → #947
  5. ↑ 331Giovanni#1,242 → #911
Fallers
  1. ↓ 324Olin#871 → #1,195
  2. ↓ 295Enoch#984 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 285Rand#953 → #1,238
  4. ↓ 283Vernell#996 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 269Bentley#926 → #1,195

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1963 →