Quyen
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quyen 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: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quyền.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 197 ●
- 1 in 55 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
292K records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Quan in US United States, VN Vietnam, CN China and 4 more, Juan in PE Peru, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 3 more, 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●
Borrowed from Vietnamese Quyền.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 651,479△ | 47K rec. | 1 in 511 | 651K | Quan | 197 |
| VN Vietnam | #41 | 424,314 | 212K rec. | — | listed | Quan | 181 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 307,186△ | 52 rec. | 1 in 55 | 307K | Juan | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 298,933△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 167 | 319K | Juan | 57 |
| BO Bolivia | #692 | 106,843△ | 176 rec. | 1 in 109 | 107K | Juan | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 67,908 | — | 1 in 3.1K | 68K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 54,221 | — | 1 in 94 | 54K | — | — |
| LA Laos | #3 | 52,678 | 87 rec. | — | — | Juan | 20 |
| TH Thailand | — | 20,657 | 13K rec. | — | #68,153 | จวน | 146 |
| FR France | — | 9,325△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 7.3K | 9.3K | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | #987 | 5,127 | 7K rec. | — | — | Khuan | 44 |
| CN China | — | 3,624 | 1.8K rec. | — | listed | Quan | 108 |
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●
- Vietnamese146K73%
- English35K17%
- 5K2%
- Spanish2.9K1%
- French1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 145,961 | 73% |
| English | 35,111 | 17% |
| 4,968 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 2,934 | 1% |
| French | 1,008 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 22 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Quyen Tranb. 1984USAmerican cinematographer
- Quyen Nguyen LeUSAmerican filmmaker
- Quyen Nguyensurgeon
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.7K | #3,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #3,842 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 135 | #6,980 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 107 | #5,173 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 102 | #7,630 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 52 | #7,871 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 22 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 21 | #14,341 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #20,708 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Quyen?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Quyen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Quyen have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 651 thousand people bear Quyen in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled quan.
- Where is Quyen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quyen is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 55 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Quyen compared with other names?
- In Laos, Quyen is the 3rd most common given name of 25,468 given names recorded there.
- Is Quyen a male or female name?
- Quyen 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 Quyen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quyền.
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About this data
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, “Quyen” — the 3rd most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.