Kypton
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Kypton by the numbers
Kypton was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 42 babies in 2010, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kypton
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kypton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kipton88 in the US (2017)
- Kyston8 in the US (2017)
- Koltoncoal settlement; a form of Colton679 in the US (2017)
- Keatonfrom Keaton, settlement where hawks fly496 in the US (2017)
- Kentonsettlement of the keen or royal estate133 in the US (2017)
- Kyronlordly and masterly; a variant of Cyrus25 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Kypton
Names that are said the same way as Kypton, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kiptyn36 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kypton
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