Given name & surname · also Hokkien
Suan
Suan is a surname from Hokkien, ultimately from Early Modern Spanish. It is used in Tagalog and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Suan comes from Hokkien, and ultimately from Early Modern Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Suan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 167
- 61 boys · 106 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 10 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 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 862 as a first name in 2020; 587 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.
Suan’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Suan as a surname has a related form in Juan.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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