Nequan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nequan has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 2003, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Nequan, 2003
1 in 380,000
Nequan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nequan?
Nequan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 380,000
- 10 of 3,801,425 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 197,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 263,496 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nequan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 263,496 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nequan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nequans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nequan was born before 1997 — so the typical Nequan is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 70.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Nequan 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 2003 (10)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nequan
Nequan is not the most common spelling — Jaquan is, with 21.7% against Nequan'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.
Nequan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nequan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nequan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.