Raquan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Raquan by the numbers
Raquan was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 157 babies in 1996, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Raquan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Raquan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Rayquan14 in the US (2017)
- Rayanwatered; verdant or irrigated land291 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rayyanwatered, irrigated; one who drinks261 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rayaangates of paradise75 in England and Wales (2025)
- Raiyanwatered, luxuriant; plural of raiy34 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rayhansweet basil16 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Raquan
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