Cleon
Cleon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 662nd, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192175 births
- Best rank
- #662in 1903
- Since 1884
- 3,182people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,993 boys have been named Cleon in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 75 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 75 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 189 girls have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cleon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | |
| 1890s | 23 | |
| 1900s | 59 | |
| 1910s | 342 | |
| 1920s | 565 | |
| 1930s | 450 | |
| 1940s | 311 | |
| 1950s | 257 | |
| 1960s | 225 | |
| 1970s | 323 | |
| 1980s | 134 | |
| 1990s | 123 | |
| 2000s | 69 | |
| 2010s | 62 | |
| 2020s | 34 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Cleon was the 774th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Cleon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eltonpeak 1920
- Wiltonpeak 1924
- Talmadgepeak 1933
- Hershelpeak 1924
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Russelpeak 1920
- Altonpeak 1937
- Bernardpeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.