Given name & surname
Quyen
Quyen is a surname from Vietnamese. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Quyen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 383
- 42 boys · 341 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,523 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,523 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,127 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.
Quyen’s family of names
In French usage, Quyen as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Quyền.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Quyen, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Tuyen
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14% boys · 86% girls
Huyen
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Xuan
“born in the spring” · “born during the spring”
9% boys · 91% girls
Tuyet
“snow-white woman”
>99% girls
Kiri
“resembling the amaranth flower” · “resembling the mountains”
4% boys · 96% girls
Lien
“resembling the lotus”
1% boys · 99% girls
Nguyet
“woman of the moon”
>99% girls