Juan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Juan boys named Juan

By the numbers

Total US births

368,366

Estimated living today

323,000

Median age today

30

Peak year

2005

Best rank

55th

Rank in 2025

159th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

2,760 / 365,606

How old the living Juans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 368,366 babies given the name since 1880, about 323,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 65,000 of them are children and 21,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Manx, Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Juans

• Juan Carlos I of Spain (born 1938)King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
• Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958)Spanish poet
• Juan Manuel Santos (born 1951)president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
• Juan Perón (1895–1974)president of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74)
• Juan Manuel Fangio (1911–1995)Argentine racing driver
• Juan Guaidó (born 1983)Venezuelan politician and former President of the National Assembly
• Juan Mata (born 1988)Spanish association football player
• Juan Gris (1887–1927)Spanish artist

People named Juan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Juan is most common

• TX119,353
• CA96,497
• NY20,241
• IL16,436
• FL14,728
• AZ11,870
• NJ6,888
• NM6,382
• CO5,124
• GA4,958

Relative to how many babies each state records, Juan is most concentrated in Texas (4.3×), New Mexico (3.3×), Arizona (2.6×), California (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular boys’ names the year Juan peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Matthew
• Ethan
• Andrew

All the names of 2005

Juan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Juan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Juan is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 43 of them.

Juan: rank by region

In 2023, Juan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2007, Juan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2024, Juan was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Juan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Juan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Juan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 298,933 men called Juan and 187 women called Juan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 5 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 47 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Juanita
• Juana
• Juancarlos
• Juanpablo
• Juaquin
• Juanito
• Juanjose
• Juanmanuel
• Juandiego

Juan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Juan vs Juanita
• Juan vs Juana
• Juan vs Juancarlos
• Juan vs Juanpablo
• Juan vs Juaquin
• Juan vs Juanito

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