Seon
Seon is a name with a single cultural origin: Korean.
- Korean
Meaning & Origin of Seon
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Seon is a name with a single cultural origin: Korean.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Korean
The Story of Seon
Seon first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1969, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2006: 11 births, good for #6,903 nationwide. About 27% of every Seon on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Seon last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 216 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Seon
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Seon. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
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About the name Seon
Seon is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1969 and has accumulated 216 births in the dataset. Seon's peak popularity came in 2006 when it ranked #6,903. Use the chart and map above to compare Seon's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.