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Juancarlos vs Juanpablo

American parents have registered 4,056 Juancarloses since 1880, against 2,050 Juanpablos. Juancarlos is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juancarlos against Juanpablo, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juancarlos Juanpablo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Juancarlos for 54 years and Juanpablo for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Juancarlos Juanpablo
Total US births 4,0562,050
Most in one year 154145
Babies in 2025 4838
Estimated living today 4,0002,000
Median age today 2215
Peak year 20042011
Best rank 1,049th boys1,209th boys
Rank in 2025 2,676th3,128th
First recorded 19631977
Girls / boys 0 / 4,0560 / 2,050

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Juancarloses alive today are over 22; half the Juanpablos are over 15. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Juancarlos and Juanpablo.