Quan
Just 36 Poles carry it, every one of them a man, so most people here have never met one. The name comes from Vietnamese, from a root meaning "army".
Quan Pronunciation
What Quan means
Where Quan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Quan is a short name with a long paperwork trail behind it. In Vietnamese it reads as army, from the Chinese character 軍. That is one line of descent. Another runs through Chinese, where the same sound answers to 权, quán, meaning władza and moc, authority and force.
The name has no diminutives and no variant spellings. Quan stays Quan, four letters and one syllable, the same on any register.
The Chinese link is the stronger cultural anchor. 权 belongs to a family of words about holding sway and about who decides. The Vietnamese army reading sits beside it, a separate character under a shared sound. A Polish parent filling in a form at the urząd meets a name that spells as it sounds, and behind it the character 軍 for army.
How many people are named Quan
1 in 592950 men in Poland is named Quan. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6641 among male names.
Quan as a middle name
Quan is a first name for 36 men in Poland and a middle name for another 31, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1515th, between Przemyslaw (31) and Riley (31).
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#1513 Pavlo31
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#1514 Przemyslaw31
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#1515 Quan31
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#1516 Riley31
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#1517 Rocco31