Quyen is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Quinn, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Quyen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,644 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,644 in 1983; #14,523 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Quyen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,523 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #3,644.
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Quyen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,644 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 22 (1983).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Quyen, making it the 14,523rd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #3,644, reached in 1983. That year also had the most girls given the name: 22. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Quyen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #4,814, reached in 1983. That year also had the most boys given the name: 8. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Quyen in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 383 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 158 babies named Quyen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18 US girls were named Quyen; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Vietnamese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Quyen 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 | 6 | #14,523 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,176 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,250 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,090 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,660 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,017 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,492 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,523 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,110 | 6 | #12,017 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,345 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,154 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,302 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,702 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,809 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,069 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,319 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,906 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,548 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,487 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,264 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,456 | 5 | #9,899 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,305 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,173 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,760 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,880 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,992 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,224 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,570 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,110 | 5 | #7,331 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,905 | 6 | #6,133 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,644 | 8 | #4,814 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,450 | 7 | #5,471 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,476 | 5 | #7,023 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,639 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,560 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,305 | — | — |
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).