Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Geon isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Geon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 47
- 47 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,124 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,124 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 206 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geon’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Geon
- Taejo of Goryeofounder of the Goryeo Dynasty (877-943)
- Goh KunActing President of South Korea from March to May 2004, Prime Minister of South Korea from 1997 to 1998 and from 2003 to 2004born 1938
- Kang KonNorth Korean military leader1918–1950
- Shin KuhnSouth Korean politician (1941-2015)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.