Quan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Quinn, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Quan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,644 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,644 in 1982; #7,092 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Quan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,092 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #1,644.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Quan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,644 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 43 (1995).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Quan, making it the 7,092nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 365 places from #6,727 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 13 boys named Quan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,644, reached in 1982. The most boys given the name in a single year was 43, in 1995. For comparison, it was #4,667 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quan in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 1,464 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 355 babies named Quan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 159 US boys were named Quan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Quinn (89,495 babies since 1880), Queen (16,123 babies since 1880) and Quin (2,284 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Quan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #7,092 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,727 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,863 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,814 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,671 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,183 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,602 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,253 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,706 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,632 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,667 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,017 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,579 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,509 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,186 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,987 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,551 |
| 2008 | — | — | 29 | #3,712 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,430 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,075 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,153 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,226 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,602 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,641 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,778 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,366 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,388 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,434 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,435 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,813 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,980 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,382 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,148 | 33 | #2,333 |
| 1992 | — | — | 32 | #2,344 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,183 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,931 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,281 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,980 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,048 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #1,995 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,963 | 38 | #1,662 |
| 1984 | — | — | 23 | #2,274 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,881 | 29 | #1,893 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,790 | 37 | #1,644 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,931 | 30 | #1,887 |
| 1980 | — | — | 23 | #2,268 |
| 1979 | — | — | 30 | #1,856 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,258 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,936 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,433 | 29 | #1,774 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,613 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,640 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,392 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,952 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,256 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,104 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,517 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,339 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).