Quyen — unisex name
335 babies named Quyen in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1983. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Quyen was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Quyen in 1983 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Quyen
The Social Security Administration has registered 335 babies named Quyen between 1977 and 2021, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Quyen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Quyen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 42 additional births since 1981.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Quyen performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Quyen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Quyen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Quyen 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 335 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.
Quyen at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Quyen popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1977
- Peak year (1983)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
335 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1983 with 22 births in a single year.
Quyen popularity over time — boys
42 total births recorded since 1981 (Quyen as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Quyen accounts for 11% of total recorded use across both genders.
Quyen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 127 births that decade — 38% of Quyen's all-time total
Quyen decade highlights
- Peak decade 127 births
- Runner-up 77 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Quyen's strongest decade
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Quyen by state
Where Quyen concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 47 | 14.0% |
47 of 335 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 14.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 14.0% 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, 1977–2021 (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.