Given name & surname
Doan
“from the rolling hills”
Doan is a variant of Doane. One English interpretation is “from the rolling hills.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Doan is a variant of Doane. One English interpretation is “from the rolling hills.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Doan is a variant of Doane. An origin associated with Doane is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Doan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 37 boys · 17 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,448 as a first name in 2020; 22,632 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Doan’s family of names
In English usage, Doan as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with DUAN. Doan has a related form in Doane. In English usage, Doan as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Đoàn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Doan
- Doãn Ngọc TânVietnamese association football playerborn 1994
- Đoàn Thị ĐiểmVietnamese poet1705–1746
- Đoàn Kiến QuốcVietnamese table tennis playerborn 1979
- Doan BuiFrench journalistborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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