Quyen
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quyen is a given name 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Quyền.
- LALaos≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 167as Juan
- VNVietnam≈1 in 454as Quan
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 Quyen 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 33K (inferred from the name graph)
655,696 named Juan, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Juan in ES Spain, EC Ecuador, BO Bolivia and 2 more and Quan in US United States, VN Vietnam, CN China.
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)
Borrowed from Vietnamese Quyền.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quyen 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 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 868 | Juan | 1 |
| LA Laos | #3 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Juan | 22 |
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-given 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Quyen Tranb. 1984USAmerican cinematographer
- Quyen Nguyen LeUSAmerican filmmaker
- Quyen Nguyensurgeon
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.7K | #3,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #3,842 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Quyen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Quyền. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Quyen a male or female name?
- Quyen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Quyen 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 Quyen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 655,696 people named Juan in 2020, about 1 in 507 residents.
- How common is Quyen compared with other names?
- In Laos, Quyen is the 3rd most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Quyen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quyenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Quyen” — the 3rd most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.