girls:
152 births since 1974
#5564 (3rd percentile)
boys:
8.8k births since 1970
#1255 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9k births since 1970
#2848 (63rd percentile)
The name Keon is the #2,848 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,985 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 63.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,255 (72.6% percentile) for all time with 8,833 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,564 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1974.
Keon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Keon is available in 53 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 20 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 Keon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keon reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 35.3% percentile (ranked #534) with 154 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 154 births per million (ranked 35.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keon ranks #763 for boys (16.3% percentile) with 84 births per million, which is 54.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keon reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #761) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keon".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Keon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.8% confident that Keon is pronounced as KEE-ahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-uhn, at 14.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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