Guan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Guan has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Guan, 1972
1 in 524,000
Guan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Guan?
Guan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1972
- 1 in 524,000
- 6 of 3,142,796 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1972
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,071 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Guan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,071 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Guan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Guans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Guan was born before 1972 — so the typical Guan is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Guan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (6)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Guan
Guan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 25.0% against Guan's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Guan around the world
Where Guan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada1998–1998#1,953in 1998
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Guan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Guan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Guan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.