Juan

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Juan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Graciousness’. Junjie J ‘Handsome and outstanding’.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 16
  • CZCzechia1 in 18

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11M ●

across 12 countries

#3 ●

of 16M given names

14 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
659 ●

100M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JohnLatin · English●47M records
ΙωαννηςGreek · Greek●989K records
יונהHebrew · Hebrew●95K records
ЯнисCyrillic · Russian●26K records
요한Hangul · Korean●18K records
ᲯონიGeorgian · Georgian●6.8K records
জীবনBengali · Bangla●3.8K records
ዮሐንስEthiopic · Amharic●831 records
โยฮันเนสThai · Thai●161 records
ଜୀବନOdia · Odia●15 records
ՅանArmenian · Armenian●8 records
JoࣩhnArabic · English●1 records
ജവാൻMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
ජීවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more, Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador and Joao in BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘Graciousness’. Junjie J ‘Handsome and outstanding’. G

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Juan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#212,961,3007.5M rec.—5.7KJuan239
MX Mexico#35,288,3114.2M rec.—4.7KJuan302
GB United Kingdom#14,533,2514M rec.—1.1KJohn396
BR Brazil#33,430,6084.4M rec.1 in 623.4MJoao248
PE Peru#43,194,6532.3M rec.—555KJuan176
US United States#23,118,62055M rec.1 in 1073.1MJohn659
VE Venezuela#82,400,453870K rec.—21KJuan160
GT Guatemala#32,227,734180K rec.—3.1KJuan142
PH Philippines#32,098,1301.4M rec.—listedJohn240
AU Australia#11,965,7301.7M rec.—570John410
CO Colombia#21,937,062665K rec.—1.2KJuan277
FR France#11,910,4004.1M rec.1 in 361.9MJean474

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish34M75%
  • English5.1M11%
  • 1.2M3%
  • Portuguese1M2%
  • Aymara662K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish34,199,03975%
English5,083,87411%
1,168,2623%
Portuguese1,005,3462%
Aymara661,5101%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Juan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5.6M records spelled Juan90 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ju-An, J'Uan, Juán, Jüän, Ju'An

  • a separate given name1.2M records spelled Juan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, China

    Also written Juán, Ju-An, Jüan, Júan

  • Catalan given name327K records spelled Juan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Andorra, Argentina

    Also written Juán

  • English surname63K records spelled Juan112 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Taiwan, Australia

    Languages: English, Chinese, Polish

    Also written Huang, Хуан, Хуанг, Huan, Yuan

  • Indonesian given name56K records spelled Juan11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Indonesia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Juan, Jüän, Juän, Jųąň, J̳̿u̳̿a̳̿n̳̿

  • Hungarian given name24K records spelled Juan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, Spain, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ĵúáń, Juån, Juán, Júán, Jüán

101 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Juan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • New Testament. See }John in main dictionary. Feminine form: Juana.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, from the personal name Juan, Spanish equivalent of John.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A male given name from Manx or Spanish, equivalent to English John.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, John (Biblical character)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • God is full of grace

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.2K · 2005

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Juan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188039
188145
188239
188350
188456
188554
188669
188757
188856
188961
189050
189142
189255
189351
189450
189561
189663
189753
189853
189960
190084
190178
190268
190375
190481
190593
190688
1907121
1908101
1909123
1910150
1911151
1912217
1913243
1914299
1915348
1916338
1917407
1918436
1919524
1920605
1921571
1922620
1923645
1924740
1925718
1926648
1927759
1928858
1929875
1930907
1931744
1932654
1933629
1934636
1935628
1936579
1937573
1938639
1939625
1940677
1941661
1942718
1943835
1944902
19451,013
19461,128
19471,314
19481,475
19491,834
19502,025
19511,838
19521,856
19531,894
19541,870
19551,771
19561,756
19571,902
19581,939
19591,920
19602,076
19612,052
19622,150
19632,250
19642,227
19652,199
19662,383
19672,474
19682,622
19693,024
19703,476
19713,648
19723,672
19734,087
19744,428
19754,695
19765,053
19774,562
19784,837
19794,946
19805,434
19815,499
19825,121
19834,894
19844,644
19854,851
19865,076
19874,976
19885,171
19895,781
19906,743
19916,843
19926,956
19936,901
19947,208
19956,982
19967,010
19977,115
19987,361
19997,800
20007,712
20017,447
20027,820
20037,831
20048,134
20058,231
20067,940
20077,422
20087,034
20096,283
20105,245
20114,684
20124,284
20133,892
20143,903
20153,525
20163,349
20172,997
20182,844
20192,704
20202,523
20212,360
20222,679
20232,539
20242,609
20252,318

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000John I of Castile and Leon, b. 1358John II of Castile, b. 1405Alfonso XII of Spain, b. 1857Juan Negrín, b. 1892Sebastián Piñera, b. 1949Evo Morales, b. 1959Felipe VI of Spain, b. 1968Juan Garaizabal, b. 1971Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, b. 1988Juan Fernando Quintero, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 125 sources across 63 countries.

Official registers attesting Juan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020651K#60
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019555K#3
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—319K#6
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024307K#4
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—299K#11
BO BoliviaSERECÍ — civil registry names2024107K#1
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202268K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—67K#449
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—54K#6
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—46K#836
DO Dominican RepublicJCE — Nombres más registrados (annual)202533K#4
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—22K#243

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,448 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Juan?
We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Juan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Juan have the most bearers?
Juan is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
How common is Juan compared with other names?
In Argentina, Juan is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Juan a male or female name?
Juan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Juan mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Graciousness’. Junjie J ‘Handsome and outstanding’.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juan

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Juan” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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