Quan

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Quan is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Laos it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: mandarin.

rarermore common
  • LALaos1 in 85◐
  • VNVietnam1 in 129
  • ESSpain1 in 167

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5M ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
197 ●

292K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 55 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

QuanLatin · Vietnamese●167K records
จวนThai · Thai●5K records

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Juan in PE Peru, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 3 more, Quyen in SE Sweden, CA Canada, ฮวน in KR South Korea and จวน in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

mandarin

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Quan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—651,479△47K rec.1 in 511651KQuan197
VN Vietnam#41424,314212K rec.—listedQuan181
EC Ecuador—307,186△52 rec.1 in 55307KJuan16
ES Spain—298,933△1.4K rec.1 in 167319KJuan57
BO Bolivia#692106,843△176 rec.1 in 109107KJuan8
BR Brazil—67,908—1 in 3.1K68K——
CR Costa Rica—54,221—1 in 9454K——
LA Laos#352,67887 rec.——Juan20
TH Thailand—20,65713K rec.—#68,153จวน146
FR France—9,325△1 rec.1 in 7.3K9.3K—1
MY Malaysia#9875,1277K rec.——Khuan44
CN China—3,6241.8K rec.—listedQuan108

Roughly 651K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 511). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese167K60%
  • English57K20%
  • Chinese18K7%
  • 10K4%
  • Spanish5.9K2%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese166,75860%
English56,67020%
Chinese17,9907%
10,0454%
Spanish5,8532%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Quan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name124K records spelled Quan31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Quân, Qu'An, Quán, 'Quan, Quận

  • a separate given name54K records spelled Quan37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Quận, Quân, Quần, Qùan, Quản

  • a separate given name14K records spelled Quan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

    Also written Quân, Quản, Quán

  • French given name4.7K records spelled Quan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, China

    Also written Quân, Quán, Quản, Quấn, Quắn

  • Portuguese given name4.1K records spelled Quan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, China, United Kingdom

    Also written Quân, Qúàn, Quản, Quán, Quần

  • Hindi given name2.1K records spelled Quan15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Quân, Qúan, Quận, Q͎u͎a͎n͎, Quần

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Quan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from Ó Cúáin, see Coyne .

    as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

  • In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of quān

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of whan

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pro, alternative form of can

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ckv, sprout from the stump

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019701980199020002010202043 · 1995

Show as table
Quan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1966–2025
Yearrecords
19665
19698
197019
197118
197212
197310
197415
197516
197629
197726
197821
197930
198023
198130
198237
198329
198423
198538
198630
198730
198833
198930
199040
199134
199232
199333
199433
199543
199627
199734
199836
199938
200041
200134
200224
200325
200421
200522
200624
200732
200829
200922
201019
201124
201231
201321
201419
201521
201613
201721
201814
201922
202018
20219
202221
202316
202413
202512

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 58 years between 1966–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Sun Quan, b. 182Huang Quan, b. 903William Quan Judge, b. 1851Lin Chuan, b. 1951Hoàng Bình Quân, b. 1959Lê Quốc Quân, b. 1971Quan Ren, b. 1975Mạc Hồng Quân, b. 1992Vũ Hồng Quân, b. 1999Quan Martin, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 56 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Quan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.8K#4,983
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.5K#5,397
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.1K#3,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.5K#5,781
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#3,049
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—187#5,489
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—177#3,724
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—136#6,274
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—116#24,843
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—116#24,657
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—73#20,270
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202459#16,414

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Quan?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Quan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Quan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 651 thousand people bear Quan in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled quan.
Where is Quan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quan is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 55 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Quan compared with other names?
In Laos, Quan is the 3rd most common given name of 25,468 given names recorded there.
Is Quan a male or female name?
Quan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Quan mean?
Recorded meaning: mandarin
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quan

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quan” — the 3rd most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Quan parses inside a full name →