Quyen
Only 14 people in Poland carry it, and they split almost evenly across men and women: genuinely unisex. Most Poles have never met a Quyen.
Quyen Pronunciation
What Quyen means
Where Quyen comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Quyen comes from Vietnamese, where it is written Quyên and traced to the Sino-Vietnamese word 娟, quyên, meaning beautiful and graceful. In Vietnam it belongs almost always to girls.
The same syllable names a bird. In the phrase đỗ quyên it points to the cuckoo, and the word doubles as the name of the azalea. A woman named Quyên shares her name with a songbird and a flowering shrub, and the sense of grace grew alongside that pairing. The bird sings in spring, so the name leans toward that season too.
On a Polish class register the diacritic usually drops away and the name reads simply Quyen. There are no Polish diminutives or variants recorded for it, and no name-day in the Polish calendar. The meaning stays close to where it began: beautiful, graceful, 娟.
How many people are named Quyen
1 in 2134619 men in Poland is named Quyen. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12923 among male names.
Quyen as a middle name
Quyen is a first name for 14 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2631st, between Ping (9) and Rachelle (9).
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#2629 Pauliina9
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#2630 Ping9
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#2631 Quyen9
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#2632 Rachelle9
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#2633 Radhika9