Kanokwan

Meaning

golden complexion (kanok = gold + wan = complexion, from Sanskrit varna); a staple formal name of the 1980s and 90s school cohort

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kanokwan has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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