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Kawan

#9,313 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Cauã

Kawan has been given to 583 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #9,313 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Kawan, 2025

1 in 414,000

Kawan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kawan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cauã

Old Tupi

What Kawan means

Kawan is a variant of Cauã.

Origin, language, and formation

Kawan is used in Portuguese. Its origins include Old Tupi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cauã.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Kawan is pronounced /kaˈwɐ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 568 boys were recorded with the name Kawan between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,405 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,095 in 2020 to #9,313 in 2025.

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Kawan between 1972 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1972; its best national rank was #8,850 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kawan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,313
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kawan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kawan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kawans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kawan was born before 1997 — so the typical Kawan is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
568
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Kawan 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
+2,357
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,782
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 2007 (21)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,405
1974

Spellings of Kawan

Kawan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 47.8% against Kawan's 0.07%.

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.

Where Kawan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kawan was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 276,196 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kawan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kawan around the world

Where Kawan 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.

  • France
    2010–2019
    #6,772
    in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kawan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,782
Best rank ever
#2,405
1974
Peak year
2007
21 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
568
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,850
1972
Peak year
1972
5 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kawan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KawhiKawikaKawaiTywanKwanRizwanRidwanJawanTaiwanCowanKawonSafwanDewanBowanDawanMarwanTawanKewanJuwanRadwanDuwanEwanJowanJaqwan

Sibling names for Kawan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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