Quanah

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Fragrant, smelly

Quanah has been given to 232 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1976, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.

Babies named Quanah, 2018

1 in 586,000

Quanah over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Quanah over time

In 2018, Quanah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19622018

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Quanah: meaning, origin, and history

Fragrant, smelly

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Quanah means

Quanah means “fragrant, smelly”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Quanah is used in Comanche (Anglicized).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkwɑn.ə/ for Quanah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 boys were recorded with the name Quanah between 1973 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1976; its best national rank was #3,212 in 1976.

In the United States, 40 girls were recorded with the name Quanah between 1962 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,710 in 1962.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Quanah?

Quanah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 586,000; 6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only: 1 in 303,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 406,284 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Quanah 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Quanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Quanahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Quanah was born before 1994 — so the typical Quanah is around 31 today.

Median birth year: 1994; About 31 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 51.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 192; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Quanah 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 1976 (12)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,212; 1976

Spellings of Quanah

Quanah is not the most common spelling — Quan is, with 60.6% against Quanah's 8.2%.

Quan60.6%1,425
Quang31.2%733
Quanah8.2%192

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 Quanah is used

Across 1910–2025, Quanah was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 475,046 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Oklahoma1 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. Quanah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Quanah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,212; 1976
Peak year: 1976; 12 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 192
Count in 2025: Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,710; 1962
Peak year: 1975; 10 that year
First recorded: 1962
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 40
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Quanah

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

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Sibling names for Quanah

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

For a sister

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For a brother

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