Lequan — boys' name
391 babies named Lequan in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Lequan was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Lequan in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lequan
The Social Security Administration has registered 391 babies named Lequan between 1974 and 2015, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lequan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lequan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lequan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lequan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lequan 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 391 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.
Lequan at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lequan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1974
- Peak year (1991)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
391 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 25 births in a single year.
Lequan popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1976 (Lequan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Lequan accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Lequan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 153 births that decade — 39% of Lequan's all-time total
Lequan decade highlights
- Peak decade 153 births
- Runner-up 93 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Lequan's strongest decade
153 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Lequan by state
Where Lequan concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 22 | 5.6% |
22 of 391 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 5.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 5.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.