Jaquan
Masculine
Jaquan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 10,605 boys against 58 girls since 1880.
Jaquan joins a Ja- front to a -quan ending, and it belongs to a documented American naming workshop of the late twentieth century.
How old is the name Jaquan?
Jaquan first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Jaquan alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 10,500 people named Jaquan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaquan most popular?
Jaquan peaked in 1999, reaching #414 nationally. Today it ranks #2284, 1,870 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jaquan
Our story of Jaquan is a story of a set of parts. African-American families from the 1970s built given names from fronts — Ja-, Da-, Ra-, Mar- — and endings — -quan, -von, -shawn, -mar — producing names that belong to no borrowed tradition. Jaquan, Daquan, Raquan and Marquan all come out of it, and Jaquan appears in the registers from the 1980s. That workshop is a specific and real history, and it is better stated than dressed in a foreign source.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented etymology. It is a modern American coinage on the Ja- front and -quan ending, alongside Daquan, Raquan and Marquan. Attributions to older languages are not supported. Honest sources record it as a coinage.
Pronouncing Jaquan
juh-KWAHN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Jaquan and Jaquon are said nearly identically.
Nicknames for Jaquan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most boys named
- 1999567 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #414reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −15.3%61 in 2025, from 72
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jaquan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jaquann in English — spelling variant
- Daquan in English — related form
- Jaquon in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Illinois.
Jaquans among us
people named Jaquan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,001 born in 2025 was named Jaquan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rollin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaquan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rollin climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rollin's path sketches the road Jaquan is walking now.
Jaquan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jaquan is headed
Jaquan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jaquan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaquan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jay and Quan are two short forms, both with real use.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- It records a real and documented American naming tradition.
- There is no inherited meaning.
- Several spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaquans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,500 people named Jaquan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jaquan in 2025?
- Jaquan ranks #2284 among US boy names in 2025, with 61 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaquan?
- About 1 in every 28,001 US boys born in 2025 was named Jaquan — 61 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaquan with classmates?
- Jaquan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jaquan
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