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Vukan

#8,862 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Vukan has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #8,862 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Vukan, 2025

1 in 368,000

Vukan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vukan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vukan means

Vukan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vukan is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Vukan is pronounced /ʋǔkan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Vukan between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,862 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vukan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,862
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vukan 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vukan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vukans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vukan was born before 2023 — so the typical Vukan is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
78.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Vukan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,862
2025

Spellings of Vukan

Vukan is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 74.9% against Vukan's <0.01%.

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.

Vukan around the world

Where Vukan 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 & Wales
    2021–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2016–2024
    #4,978
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vukan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,862
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,862
2025
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Vukan

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

LykanLukanRykanDekanNikanElkanArkanAnikanSerkanMakanVukTarkanOkanErkanHakanNickanVukasinAtakanVelkanDeekanAkanOlalekanRakanFurkan

Sibling names for Vukan

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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