Joaquin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name, Spanish equivalent of Joachim
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xoakin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joaquin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 386(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 496
- ARArgentina≈1 in 690
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #916 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 386 (inferred from the name graph)
100,775 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name, Spanish equivalent of Joachim.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joaquin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #68 | 100,775 | 1 in 496 | 105K | Joaquin | 228 |
| AR Argentina | #155 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 690 | 2.9K | Joaquin | 172 |
| US United States | — | 38,466 | 1 in 8.6K | 38K | Joaquin | 403 |
| CL Chile | #174 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 772 | 1.3K | Joaquin | 149 |
| BR Brazil | — | 16,997 | 1 in 12K | 19K | Joaquin | 71 |
| UY Uruguay | #33 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 386 | — | Joaquin | 102 |
| SV El Salvador | #249 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Joaquin | 48 |
100,775 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Joaquin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Biblical. See }Joachim in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Smyrna, Tucuman, Buenos Aires; Deus raises
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Spanish form of JOACHIM .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jeconiahb. 616ILnot in their usual namenineteenth King of Judah
- José Joaquín Pérezb. 1801CLChilean politician and President (1801-1889)
- Joaquín Sorollab. 1863ESSpanish painter (1863–1923)
- Enrique Granadosb. 1867ESnot in their usual nameSpanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)
- Quinob. 1932ARnot in their usual nameArgentine cartoonist (1932-2020)
- Joaquín Caparrósb. 1955ESSpanish association football manager
- El Chapob. 1957MXnot in their usual nameMexican drug lord (born 1957)
- Joaquin Phoenixb. 1974USAmerican actor
- Jorge Garbajosab. 1977ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1977)
- Joaquínb. 1981ESSpanish footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 105K | #46 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 101K | #93 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38K | #1,077 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,469 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #1,178 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 3.4K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.9K | #44 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 2.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2.3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 925 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143 | #1,077 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Joaquin?
- A machine transcription gives /xoakin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Joaquin mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name, Spanish equivalent of Joachim. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Joaquin a male or female name?
- Joaquin 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 are other forms of the name Joaquin?
- In the etymology graph, Jo, Joaquim and Joachim are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Joaquin have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Joaquin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joaquin.
- How common is the name Joaquin?
- In Spain, the national register counted 100,775 people named Joaquin, about 1 in 496 residents.
- How common is Joaquin compared with other names?
- In Spain, Joaquin is the 68th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joaquin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joaquinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Joaquin” — the 68th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.