Juān
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Juān is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Juan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוחנן (yókhanan).
- ESSpain1 in 167(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 507
- ECEcuador1 in 55
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #555 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 492 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55 (inferred from the name graph)
655,696 people, 2020
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Juan in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and 2 more.
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)
- SpanishJuan(measured from records)
- LatinIohannes(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸωάννηςIōánnēs(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewיוחנןyókhanan(measured from records)
From Spanish Juan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוחנן (yókhanan).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Juān 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #230 | 655,696 | 1 in 507 | 651K | Juan | 492 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 307,186 | 1 in 55 | 307K | Juan | 85 |
| ES Spain | #202 | 298,933 | 1 in 167 | 319K | Juan | 186 |
| BO Bolivia | — | 106,843 | 1 in 109 | 107K | Juan | 52 |
| BR Brazil | — | 67,908 | 1 in 3.1K | 68K | — | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 54,221 | 1 in 94 | 54K | — | 5 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #6 | — | — | — | Juan | 64 |
655,696 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; SERECÍ — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margaret Tu Chuanb. 1942CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Guo Juanb. 1960CNChinese Go player
- Sunny Fub. 1962CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Du Juanb. 1968CNChinese athlete
- Li Juanb. 1968CNChinese athlete
- Yang Juanb. 1969CNChinese athletics competitor
- Li Juanb. 1979CNChinese essayist
- Li Juanb. 1981CNvolleyball player
- Wang Juanb. 1982CNChinese judoka
- Gu Juanb. 1990CNSingaporean badminton player
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(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Juān mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Juan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוחנן (yókhanan). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Juān a male or female name?
- Juān 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.
- In which country does Juān have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 656 thousand people named Juān, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juan.
- Where is Juān most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Juān is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 55 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Juān?
- In the United States, the national register counted 655,696 people named Juān in 2020, about 1 in 507 residents.
- How common is Juān compared with other names?
- In the United States, Juān is the 230th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ju%C4%81nThe 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, “Juān” — the 230th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.