Saquan
#6,732 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saquan has been given to 780 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #6,732 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Saquan, 2025
1 in 255,000
Saquan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Saquan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,732
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saquan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saquan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saquans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saquan was born before 1997 — so the typical Saquan is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 45.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 773
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (354).
Is Saquan 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
- +5,376
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,874
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,693
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.86×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.1%
- Peak was 1996 (48)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Saquan
Saquan is not the most common spelling — Jaquan is, with 16.0% against Saquan's 1.2%.
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 Saquan is used
Across 1910–2025, Saquan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 77,000 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 50,000
- 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Maryland1 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. Saquan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Saquan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Saquan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saquan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.