Kuan

loc · Latin script

Meaning: 3. Filipino: unexplained

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kuan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
234 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

3. Filipino: unexplained.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kuan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Kuan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—2.2K—34
US United States—1.4K—234
SE Sweden—28—2
FI Finland—25—2
ES Spain—19—9

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kuan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In sit-pro, cuddle down, snuggle

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Cebuano, the (thing, person, action, or event) being indicated (at a distance from the speaker, or previously mentioned, or at another time)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tnt, what is said, thought or intended

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In sjm, as for, regarding, concerning

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of kuān

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Guan Yu, b. 162Nancy Kwan, b. 1939Teddy Robin, b. 1945Mo Yan, b. 1955Rosamund Kwan, b. 1962Ke Huy Quan, b. 1971Kevin Kwan, b. 1973Michelle Kwan, b. 1980Kenny Kwan, b. 1980Dan Kwan, b. 1988
  • Guan Yub. 162CNnot in their usual nameChinese general serving warlord Liu Bei (160-220)
  • Nancy Kwanb. 1939USnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress
  • Teddy Robinb. 1945CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong-English pop singer-songwriter
  • Mo Yanb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and screenwriter
  • Rosamund Kwanb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
  • Ke Huy Quanb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and stunt choreographer
  • Kevin Kwanb. 1973SGnot in their usual nameAsian-American novelist
  • Michelle Kwanb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican figure skater and diplomat
  • Kenny Kwanb. 1980CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer
  • Dan Kwanb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican director and screenwriter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Kuan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#4,733
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20202.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#7,882
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20101.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20001.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2010871—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020436#19,234
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020170—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020117#19,234
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200077—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)199048—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kuan mean, and where does it come from?
3. Filipino: unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
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Kuan is most frequently recorded in Brazil.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kuan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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