Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Killion is a form of Killeen. Killeen comes from Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Killion through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 51 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,403 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. 11,403 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,728 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Killion’s family of names
In English usage, Killion as a surname has a related form in KILLEEN.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Killion
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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