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Kawon

Gender
Boy
Say it
kah-WAHN
Origin
Modern

Kawon is a boys' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Kawon come from?

Modern: modern coinage with the Ka- prefix, similar to Juwan and Dewan

Is Kawon a girl's or a boy's name?

Kawon is a boys' name.

How popular is Kawon in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1990, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1979.

Half of all the boys named Kawon in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1979Busiest: 11 in 19902018
Kawon in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20185#12,150
20170–
20165#12,180
20150–
20147#9,636
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20089#8,319
20070–
20069#7,992
20058#8,292
20046#9,941
20037#8,636
20027#8,449
20015#10,548
20007#8,202
19999#6,524
19980–
199710#5,636
19968#6,489
19956#7,785
19947#6,962
19930–
19920–
19917#6,511
199011#4,667
19895#7,898
19887#5,745
19876#6,083
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19825#6,383
19810–
19800–
19798#4,401

Names like Kawon

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Kawon: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kawon, updated 20 October 2026.