Quán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: an eating establishment with place to sit
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Quán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Laos it is the 3rd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 454(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 7.1K
- ESSpain1 in 167as Juan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Quán itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 454 (inferred from the name graph)
655,696 named Juan, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Quan in US United States, VN Vietnam, CN China and 1 more and Juan in ES Spain, EC Ecuador, BO Bolivia and 1 more.
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)
an eating establishment with place to sit
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 655,696as Juan | 1 in 507 | 651K | Quan | 214 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 307,186as Juan | 1 in 55 | 307K | Juan | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 298,933as Juan | 1 in 167 | 319K | Juan | 55 |
| VN Vietnam | #44 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 454 | listed | Quan | 184 |
| CN China | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Quan | 120 |
| BO Bolivia | — | 106,843as Juan | 1 in 109 | 107K | Juan | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 54,221as Juan | 1 in 94 | 54K | — | — |
| LA Laos | #3 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Juan | 22 |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | 1 in 159K | 1.3K | Quan | 7 |
655,696 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling juan. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the vn-kaggle-surname register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; SERECÍ — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Quán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 全
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)
- Quan Deyub. 759Chinese chancellor
- Gwon Yulb. 1537KRnot in their usual nameKorean Army General and the Commander-in-chief of the Joseon Dynasty
- Graciela Quanb. 1911GTGuatemalan lawyer and activist
- Quan Hanshengb. 1912TWEconomic scholar (1912–2001)
- Jun Ki Sangb. 1959KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean television director
- Dionne Quanb. 1978USformer American voice actress
- Jeon Ji-hoob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Quan Hengb. 1989CNfootballer
- Ye Quanb. 2001CASouth Korean ice dancer
- Quan Hongchanb. 2007CNChinese diver (2007-)
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese surnames (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Quán mean, and where does it come from?
- an eating establishment with place to sit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Quán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 656 thousand people named Juan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Quán?
- In Finland, the national register counted 35 people named Quán, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Quán compared with other names?
- In Laos, Quán is the 3rd most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qu%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Quán” — the 3rd most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.