# Platon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/platon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 197 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 197 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 35, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Platon, Greek Πλάτων (Pláton) or Russian and Ukrainian Платон (Platon).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,378 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,989 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,339 |
| 2014 | 23 | 4,363 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,348 |
| 2016 | 12 | 7,038 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,717 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,484 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,765 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,563 |
| 2021 | 12 | 6,994 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,819 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,536 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,156 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,484 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Platon

- Platon, British photographer
- Platon Zhukovich, Belarusian historian (1857-1919)
- Platon Ioseliani, Georgian historian (1810–1875)
- Plato, 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
- Plato of Bactria, Bactrian king
- Plato of Sakkoudion, Byzantine saint

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.