girls:
189 births since 1905
#5527 (3rd percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1884
#2296 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1884
#4831 (38th percentile)
The name Cleon is the #4,831 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,174 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 37.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,296 (49.9% percentile) for all time with 2,985 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,527 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 189 births since 1905.
Cleon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1905 for girls). Birth data for Cleon is available in 126 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (125 years for boys and 26 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cleon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cleon reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #480) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 93 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cleon ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cleon reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #571) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1942.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cleon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Cleon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Cleon is pronounced as KLEE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KLEE-ahn, at 40.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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