Raquan
Raquan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,688 among boys’ names; 1,397 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Raquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raquan?
#11,688 among boys’ names, 2025
Raquan fell from #4,516 in 2015 to #11,688 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 3.5 per million.
157 babies in 1996, the peak
Raquan peaked in 1996, when 157 boys were given it, #875 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,688 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,767 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,629 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,264 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,930 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,506 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,701 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,588 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,811 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 22 | #4,516 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #4,662 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,521 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,919 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,616 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,205 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,247 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,358 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,610 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,201 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,686 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,296 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,454 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 62 | #1,841 | 31.9 |
| 2001 | 74 | #1,610 | 38.1 |
| 2000 | 75 | #1,578 | 38.2 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,402 | 43.7 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,181 | 54.9 |
| 1997 | 109 | #1,138 | 57.8 |
| 1996 | 157 | #875 | 82.9 |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,028 | 61.5 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,595 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,611 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,305 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,589 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,126 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,969 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,703 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,864 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raquan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raquan, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,397 Americans ever recorded as Raquan. The median Raquan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 959 people named Raquan (19 women and girls, 940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,328 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 419 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 784 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 162 |
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 Raquan born?
The states with the most babies named Raquan are Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 125 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| North Carolina | 118 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| South Carolina | 106 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| New York | 89 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 78 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Maryland | 44 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Raquan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raquan is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1987 it was given 5.7 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 Raquan 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,452 babies since 1880, Raquan is the most given (40% of them).
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 Raquan
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 Raquan and names like it
- Compare Raquan and RayquanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRaquan peaked in 1996.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raquan since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Raquan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raquan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.