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Kwan

About 564 American babies have been named Kwan since 1969, most of them around 1975. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 540 Kwans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kwan boys named Kwan

By the numbers

Total US births
564
Estimated living today
540
Median age today
32
Peak year
1975
Best rank
2,134th
Rank in 2025
9,714th
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
27 / 537

How old the living Kwans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 564 babies given the name since 1969, about 540 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Kwan is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1975

The most popular boys’ names the year Kwan peaked:

All the names of 1975

Kwan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Kwan 5 12

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Kwan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.