Cleon
About 3,189 American babies have been named Cleon since 1884, most of them around 1921. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 1,300 Cleons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cleon boys named Cleon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,189
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 772nd
- Rank in 2025
- 9,714th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 189 / 3,000
How old the living Cleons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,189 babies given the name since 1884, about 1,300 are alive — 40 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλέων, from κλέω (“to recount, celebrate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cleons
- Cleon (500 BC–421 BC)Athenian statesman and general (died 422 BC)
People named Cleon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cleon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cleon is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (4.5×), Georgia (3.9×), New York (3.1×), Indiana (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Cleon peaked:
Cleon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Cléon | 60 | 2,625th |
| England and Wales boys | Cleon | 16 | 4,270th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Cleon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.