Tuan
Tuan was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 1,417 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Tuan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 32 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tuan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tuan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,016, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
93 babies in 1982, the peak
Tuan peaked in 1982, when 93 boys were given it, #932 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #12,016 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 6 | #12,017 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,653 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #14,093 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,748 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,681 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,715 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,506 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,525 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,542 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 12 | #7,194 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,741 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,044 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,430 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,598 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,936 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,095 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,370 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,978 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,978 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,362 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,275 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,039 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,095 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,837 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,606 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,042 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,835 | 22.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,789 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,833 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,510 | 27.5 |
| 1988 | 59 | #1,350 | 30.8 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,280 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,115 | 39.1 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,030 | 43.3 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,020 | 42.7 |
| 1983 | 83 | #970 | 46.3 |
| 1982 | 93 | #932 | 51.3 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,061 | 41.9 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,226 | 32.0 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,369 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,298 | 29.8 |
| 1977 | 25 | #2,004 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,821 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,632 | 10.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,612 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tuan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tuan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tuan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tuan, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,417 Americans ever recorded as Tuan. The median Tuan alive today is 39 years old; half are between 32 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 13,719 people named Tuan (263 women and girls, 13,456 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.1 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 | 208 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 856 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 51 |
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 Tuan born?
The states with the most babies named Tuan are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 377 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 137 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 96 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Kansas | 15 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tuan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tuan is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.1 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 Tuan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tuan
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 Tuan and names like it
- Compare Tuan and HungBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTuan peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tuan since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Tuan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tuan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.