Quanah — boys' name

What the Data Says About Quanah

The Social Security Administration has registered 192 babies named Quanah between 1973 and 2018, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Quanah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Quanah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 40 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Quanah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Quanah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Quanah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Quanah 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 192 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.