Keyon

Where Keyon comes from

Keyon hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #2,323 among boys, 16 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1980
    Keyon Dooling born
    American basketball player
  4. 2002
    Peak, #711
    249 babies named Keyon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2007
    Keyon Ewurum born
    footballer
  6. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,491.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Keyon Dooling · American basketball player, born 1980
  • Keyon Ewurum · footballer, born 2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.