Meaning & origin
What it means
Quwan is a romanization of Қуан. Қуан possibly goes back to a word meaning “to rejoice.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Quwan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 5 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 1985. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Quwan’s family of names
In Kazakh usage, Quwan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Қуан.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
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