Quran
Quran was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,668 among boys’ names; 1,998 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Quran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Quran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Quran?
#4,668 among boys’ names, 2025
Quran fell from #3,209 in 2015 to #4,668 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 12.9 per million.
89 babies in 1997, the peak
Quran peaked in 1997, when 89 boys were given it, #1,289 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,668 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,582 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,968 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,401 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,891 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,111 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,088 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,424 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,994 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,209 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,209 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,609 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,474 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,342 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,468 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,499 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,278 | 29.2 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,252 | 28.9 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,109 | 31.3 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,054 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,827 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,091 | 28.7 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,338 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,141 | 25.8 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,831 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,597 | 37.7 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,664 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,426 | 41.9 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,289 | 47.2 |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,353 | 42.2 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,769 | 26.3 |
| 1994 | 65 | #1,468 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,313 | 38.2 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,989 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,798 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,351 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,860 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,846 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,167 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,092 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,552 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,230 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,568 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,889 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,079 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,564 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,734 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,542 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,778 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,793 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,603 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,757 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,687 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,473 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Quran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,998 Americans recorded as Quran, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 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 Quran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Quran, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,998 Americans ever recorded as Quran. The median Quran alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,310 people named Quran (72 women and girls, 1,238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,812 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 485 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 418 |
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 Quran born?
The states with the most babies named Quran are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 217 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| New York | 213 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 136 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Maryland | 33 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Quran is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Quran is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1971 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Quran 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,601 babies since 1880, Quran is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 22 babies (100%), again the 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 Quran
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 Quran and names like it
- Compare Quran and QuronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sQuran peaked in 1997.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Quran since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Quran.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Quran alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with QMost given first.