Tran
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tran has been given to 687 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1993, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% girls, 19% boys all-time.
Babies named Tran, 2017
1 in 715,000
Tran 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Tran over time
In 2017, Tran went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Tran?
Tran had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tran sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Trans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tran was born before 1993 — so the typical Tran is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 559
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (189).
Is Tran 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
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- 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (28)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Tran
Tran is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 21.4% against Tran's 0.02%.
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 Tran is used
Across 1910–2025, Tran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 217,644 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Tran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tran around the world
Where Tran 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.
- England & Wales2010–2010#5,707in 2010
- France1989–2025#6,894in 2025
- Canada1991–2007#3,117in 2007
- South Australia1969–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tran by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Tran
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tran
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.