girls:
101 births since 1973
#5615 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5.8k births since 1972
#1556 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1972
#3536 (54th percentile)
The name Keyon is the #3,536 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,881 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 54.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,556 (66.1% percentile) for all time with 5,780 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,615 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 101 births since 1973.
Keyon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1973 for girls).
The name Keyon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keyon reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 29.6% percentile (ranked #573) with 120 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 120 births per million (ranked 29.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keyon ranks #840 for boys (7.8% percentile) with 42 births per million, which is 34.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keyon reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keyon".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Keyon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Keyon is pronounced as KEE-ahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-uhn, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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