Kwen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Bridal-bed
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kwen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 438K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 772K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 438K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Bridal-bed
Sources 1
- An English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kwen 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 772K | Kwen | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 438K | Kwen | 11 |
| US United States | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | Kwen | 73 |
| PH Philippines | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | Kwen | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7M | Kwen | 15 |
| AU Australia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | Kwen | 15 |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | Kwen | 6 |
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.
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)
Kwen 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 wuu, Corrupt
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, MancllU
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Consul
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Judge
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Wharf
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Kwen mean, and where does it come from?
- Bridal-bed Recorded by An English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect.
- Is Kwen a male or female name?
- Kwen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kwen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 277 people named Kwen in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kwen.
- How common is the name Kwen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 280 people in Nigeria have Kwen as their first given name, about 1 in 772 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kwenThe 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, “Kwen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.