Tuan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tuan has been given to 1,417 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1982, with 93 recorded.
Babies named Tuan, 2021
1 in 565,000
Tuan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tuan?
Tuan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tuan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tuan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tuans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tuan was born before 1987 — so the typical Tuan is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,417
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (710).
Is Tuan 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 1982 (93)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Tuan
Tuan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 23.8% against Tuan's 0.03%.
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 Tuan is used
Across 1910–2025, Tuan was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 62,876 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 2California1 in 50,000
- 3Kansas1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5Virginia1 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. Tuan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tuan around the world
Where Tuan 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 & Wales2000–2011#3,300in 2011
- Ireland2004–2004#390in 2004
- France1971–2024#6,154in 2024
- Canada1991–2018#1,741in 2018
- South Australia1956–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Tuan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tuan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tuan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.