Quan
Quan was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,088 among boys’ names; 1,464 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Quan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Quan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Quan is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Quan?
#7,088 among boys’ names, 2025
Quan fell from #4,665 in 2015 to #7,088 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 7.0 per million.
43 babies in 1985, the peak
Quan peaked in 1985, when 43 babies were given it (38 boys, #1,661 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,088 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,722 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,858 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,810 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,666 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,179 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,598 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,249 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,702 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,627 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,665 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,013 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,577 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,506 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,184 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,984 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,549 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,709 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,428 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,071 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,148 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,221 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,597 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,636 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,773 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,362 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,385 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,431 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,432 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,808 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,975 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,377 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,327 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,339 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,177 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,926 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,275 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,975 | 17.2 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,044 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,993 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,661 | 20.6 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,273 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,892 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 37 | #1,643 | 20.4 |
| 1981 | 30 | #1,886 | 16.7 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,268 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,856 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,258 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,936 | 15.8 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,773 | 18.5 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,611 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,638 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,390 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,950 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,255 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,103 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,516 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Quan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,464 Americans recorded as Quan, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Quan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quan, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,464 Americans ever recorded as Quan. The median Quan alive today is 31 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 7,269 people named Quan (1,129 women and girls, 6,140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 214 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 524 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 448 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 218 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Quan born?
The states with the most babies named Quan are California, Texas and New York, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 140 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Quan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,800 babies since 1880, Quan is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 44 babies (27%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Quan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Quan and names like it
- Compare Quan and QuinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sQuan peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Quan since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Quan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Quan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with QMost given first.