Rabon

Meaning & origin

Rabon is a rare given name that first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915, according to Social Security data. Its peak year was 1938, though it never ranked among the top 1000 names. The name's trajectory has been stable but very infrequent over the decades. It is most likely a surname adopted as a first name, possibly of Irish or English origin. Without any top states listed in the data, its usage appears scattered, but historical patterns suggest it may have had some regional use in the American South alongside other surname-style names of the era. With no recent data, Rabon has faded from common use, remaining a distinctive and uncommon choice.

Rabon is a surname of uncertain origin, possibly an anglicized variant of the Irish surname Rabin, which itself may derive from Ó Rabhacháin meaning 'descendant of Rabhachán', a personal name of unknown meaning. Alternatively, it could be a respelling of the English locational surname Rayburn, meaning 'roe deer stream' from Old English 'ra' (roe) and 'burna' (stream). As a given name, it first appeared in U.S. records in 1915 and saw peak use in 1938, primarily in the southern states.