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Kevion vs Kevon

American parents have registered 5,503 Kevons since 1880, against 1,102 Kevions. Kevon is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kevion against Kevon, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kevion Kevon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kevon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1950 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Kevion had 61 and Kevon had 128.

Side by side

  Kevion Kevon
Total US births 1,1025,503
Most in one year 61655
Babies in 2025 1041
Estimated living today 1,1005,400
Median age today 1925
Peak year 20082000
Best rank 2,186th boys393rd boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th2,991st
First recorded 19891950
Girls / boys 5 / 1,09756 / 5,447

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kevons alive today are over 25; half the Kevions are over 19. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kevion and Kevon.