Tyquan

#5,027 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tyquan has been given to 3,681 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,027 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 194 recorded.

Babies named Tyquan, 2025

1 in 166,000

Tyquan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tyquan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tyquan means

Tyquan is a given name.

The naming story behind Tyquan

Wikidata records Tyquan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q111982226, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,671 boys were recorded with the name Tyquan between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 194 in 1997; its best national rank was #771 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,023 in 2020 to #5,027 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,760 in 2015 to #5,027 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Tyquan between 1996 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1996; its best national rank was #15,762 in 1996.

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.

How common is Tyquan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,027
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tyquan 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tyquan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tyquans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tyquan was born before 2000 — so the typical Tyquan is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,671
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (1,456).

Is Tyquan 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
−160
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,004
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,267
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 1997 (194)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#771
1997

Spellings of Tyquan

Tyquan is not the most common spelling — Jaquan is, with 19.5% against Tyquan's 6.8%.

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 Tyquan is used

Across 1910–2025, Tyquan was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 41,137 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 6,667
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 14,286
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 16,667
  4. 4Virginia1 in 16,667
  5. 5New York1 in 20,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 25,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 in 50,000

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

Tyquan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,027
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,004
Best rank ever
#771
1997
Peak year
1997
194 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,671
Count in 2025
20

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,762
1996
Peak year
1996
5 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tyquan

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

Names with a curve like Tyquan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tyquan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Sibling names for Tyquan

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

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