Aeon
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- EE-on
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Aeon is a name of Greek origin, meaning “age, eternity”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Aeon mean?
Greek: English word aeon, from Greek aion
“age, eternity”
In Greek thought Aion was also a deity personifying unbounded, eternal time.
Is Aeon a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Aeon has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US.
How popular is Aeon in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Aeon, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Aeon in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,109 boys in the US were given Aeon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #91, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Aeon in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
Names like Aeon
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aiden, Kayden, Finnegan, Declan, Raiden, Ronan, Finn, Brayden, Deacon, Cassian, Callan, Cannon
Other spellings of Aeon
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aeon: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aeon, updated 20 October 2026.