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Juan

boy name
Origin
Spanish
Syllables
1
Peak era
2000s
Today
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Meaning

the Spanish form of John, from Hebrew Yochanan "God is gracious"; a bedrock name of the Spanish-speaking world for centuries and a steady presence near the top of US records for generations

Goes by Juanito. See all nicknames

The story

Juan is John as Spanish has said it since the Middle Ages, from the Hebrew Yochanan, "God is gracious," and Spain has used it with devotion ever since. Its most famous fictional bearer became a word: Don Juan, the seducer of Tirso de Molina's El burlador de Sevilla, retold by Molière, Mozart, and Byron until the name itself turned into a common noun for a womanizer. Its most famous real bearer closed a circle: Juan Sebastián Elcano, in Wikipedia's words best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the earth, brought the ship Victoria home. And once a year the name owns the Spanish night: on the eve of San Juan, A Coruña lights hundreds of bonfires along its beaches, and midsummer answers to the name outright. Portuguese replies with João and Brazil's June festas de São João. A gracious meaning, a scandalous legend, a completed circle, and an annual fire.

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Juan across languages

One shared root links 47 names across 10 languages.

Shared root: from Hebrew Yochanan "God is gracious", carried through Greek Ioannes and Latin Iohannes into nearly every European language

The constellation

JuanSpanishJohnEnglishJeanFrenchSeanIrishIanScottishEvanWelshIvanSlavicJoãoPortugueseJohannGerman
38 more branches of this family
JackEnglish · short formJohnnyEnglish · diminutiveJohnnieEnglish · diminutiveJohnieEnglish · variantJhonSpanish · variantJeanneFrench · feminine formJeannieScottish · diminutiveJeanieScottish · diminutiveJeanetteFrench · diminutiveJeannetteFrench · diminutiveJeannineFrench · diminutiveJaneEnglish · feminine formJanieEnglish · diminutiveJayneEnglish · variantJannaEnglish · variantJennieEnglish · diminutiveJoanEnglish · feminine formJoannaEnglish · feminine formJoanneEnglish · variantJoannEnglish · variantJohannaGerman · feminine formJanetScottish · diminutiveJanetteFrench · diminutiveJaniceEnglish · related formJanelleEnglish · related formShawnIrish · variantShayneIrish · variantIvanaSlavic · feminine formGiovannaItalian · feminine formGiannaItalian · short formGianaItalian · variantGianniItalian · diminutiveJuanaSpanish · feminine formJuanitaSpanish · diminutiveHanselGerman · diminutiveJacksonEnglish · surname formJohnsonEnglish · surname formJonesWelsh · surname form

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How popular is Juan around the world?

In the United States, 15,045 babies were named Juan between 2020 and 2025. In Montevideo, 499 boys named Juan were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

Juan is on the official records of the United States, Montevideo, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Canada, France, England and Wales, Austria and Poland.

Juan crosses languages: it is in the latest top 300 of an English-speaking birth record and of a Spanish-speaking one. The full list: English and Spanish

United States

1 in 1,400

In the United States, 15,045 babies were named Juan between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 2000s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Juan peaked in the 2000s. Juan went to 3,532 US babies in 2015 and 2,318 in 2025, 66% of the earlier figure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Montevideo City

1 in 49 · 2011

In Montevideo, 499 boys named Juan were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

peak 19432011

share of that year’s births on record

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Spain

1 in 150

In Spain, 298,933 residents are named Juan, the 8th most common name among men, with a mean age of 57.1 years.
In Spain, Juan was the 28th most common name among boys born in 2024.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Chile

1 in 210

In Chile, 868 boys were registered as Juan in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1920peak 19562021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Argentina

1 in 260

In Argentina, 2,594 newborns were given the name Juan in 2024.

peak 20122024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Mexico City City

1 in 290

In Mexico City, there were 400 registrations of Juan in 2022.

peak 20002022

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (16 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Puerto Rico

1 in 1,200

In Puerto Rico, 15 babies were named Juan in 2025, and 4,786 have carried the name since 1998.

peak 19982025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Brazil

1 in 3,000

At the 2022 census, 67,908 people in Brazil were named Juan, the 449th most common name, with a median age of 17.
Among people named Juan living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.

1930speak 2000s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 3,242 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Canada

1 in 8,500

In Canada, 43 boys named Juan were born in 2024, the 641st most common name among boys that year.

1991peak 20042024

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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France

1 in 12,000

In France, about 55 boys named Juan were born in 2025, the 713th most common name among boys that year.

1900peak 19662025

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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England and Wales

1 in 23,000

In England and Wales, 25 boys named Juan were born in 2025, ranked 1,153rd among boys that year.

1996peak 20062025

share of that year’s name registrations

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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Austria

1 in 38,000

In Austria, 2 boys named Juan were born in 2025, ranked 1,241st among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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Poland

1 in 82,000

In Poland, 3 boys named Juan were born in 2025, the 581st most common name among boys that year.

peak 20022025

share of that year’s name registrations

First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)

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Ireland

last on record 2024

Juan is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.

Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names

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New Zealand

last on record 2019

Juan is not on the 2025 record for New Zealand, where names under 10 in a year are excluded at source.

2000peak 20182025

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time

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Norway

last on record 2016

Juan is not on the 2025 record for Norway, where names carried by fewer than 4 people in a year are withheld at source.

1945peak 19772025

share of the boys on the register for that year, SSB’s own figure

People who have or have had a Norwegian ID number, emigrants left out, from Statistics Norway’s name statistics (release of January 2026): by year of birth for 1945–2020 (everyone born that year who was ever registered in Norway, including people who registered later and people who have since died) and by year of naming from 2021; only first names carried by 200 or more living people are listed, counts under 4 are withheld, and SSB merges spellings that differ only by letters outside the Norwegian alphabet. The shares are SSB’s own, of the people of that sex and year in that count; the 2025 figure counts the children named that year, and no year is a count of births. Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467 (updated 2026-01-28)

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Scotland

last on record 2007

Juan is not on the 2024 record for Scotland, where spellings under 3 in total are suppressed at source.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names

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South Australia

last on record 2016

Juan is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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When you meet Juan

Most people given the name Juan in the United States were born between 1970 and 2009. The Juan you meet today is most often in his 20s or 30s.

Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.

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Where Juan travels

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