Kwan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kwan

The Social Security Administration has registered 530 babies named Kwan between 1969 and 2022, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kwan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Kwan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kwan performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kwan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kwan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kwan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 530 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.