girls:
56 births since 1988
#5660 (1st percentile)
boys:
5.4k births since 1950
#1634 (64th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1950
#3710 (52nd percentile)
The name Kevon is the #3,710 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,413 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 52.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,634 (64.4% percentile) for all time with 5,357 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,660 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1988.
Kevon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Kevon is available in 67 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (67 years for boys and 9 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 Kevon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kevon reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 54.6% percentile (ranked #370) with 311 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 311 births per million (ranked 54.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kevon ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 9.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kevon reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kevon".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kevon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Kevon is pronounced as KEH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-vahn, at 25.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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