girls:
27 births since 1970
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
530 births since 1969
#4056 (12th percentile)
overall:
557 births since 1969
#7182 (7th percentile)
The name Kwan is the #7,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 557 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 7.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,056 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 530 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1970.
Kwan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Kwan is available in 52 out of the 54 years between 1969 and 2022 (52 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kwan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kwan reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #644) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Kwan reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #771) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kwan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kwan is pronounced as kwahn, which has 1 syllables.
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