Meaning not yet researched.
Quran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,292 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,292 in 1997; #4,669 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Quran in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,669 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,292.
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Quran: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,292 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 89 (1997).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Quran, making it the 4,669th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,085 places from #3,584 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 32 boys named Quran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,292, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #3,210 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quran in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,998 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 631 babies named Quran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 307 US boys were named Quran; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Quron, Quaron and Kuron are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Quron (361), Quaron (161), Kuron (156), Quaran (81), Kuran (72), Quraan (12), Queren (5).
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 Quran 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 | — | — | 22 | #4,669 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,584 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,971 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,405 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,895 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,115 |
| 2019 | — | — | 39 | #3,091 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,428 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,995 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,210 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,210 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,611 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,476 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,345 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,469 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,500 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,279 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,253 |
| 2007 | — | — | 65 | #2,109 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,055 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,831 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,095 |
| 2003 | — | — | 46 | #2,342 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,145 |
| 2001 | — | — | 61 | #1,835 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,601 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,128 | 64 | #1,667 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,711 | 80 | #1,429 |
| 1997 | — | — | 89 | #1,292 |
| 1996 | — | — | 80 | #1,355 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,450 | 50 | #1,774 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,000 | 65 | #1,473 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,459 | 75 | #1,318 |
| 1992 | — | — | 40 | #1,994 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,804 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,356 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,866 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,851 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,174 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,095 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,555 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,232 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,569 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,891 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,081 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,565 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,736 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,543 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,780 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,795 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,605 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,759 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,689 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,475 |
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).