Given name & surname
Kawan
Kawan is a masculine given name from Old Tupi. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kawan is a form of Cauã. Cauã comes from Old Tupi.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kawan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 583
- 568 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,317 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −26%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,317 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 445 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kawan’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Kawan has a related form in Cauã. In Portuguese usage, Kawan has a related form in Kauê.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kawan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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