Juan
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: from the personal name Juan, Spanish equivalent of John
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Juan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 39(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 49
- PYParaguay≈1 in 53
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #42 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 592 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jüän in DO Dominican Republic.
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)
‘Graciousness’. Junjie J ‘Handsome and outstanding’. G
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
How Juan is read(measured from records)
Juan is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
- English9.0%
A male given name from Manx or Spanish, equivalent to English John.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Juan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #3 | ≈1,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | 5.7K | Juan | 258 |
| CN China | — | ≈980,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Juan | 135 |
| CO Colombia | #3 | ≈890,000 est. | ≈1 in 55 | 707 | Juan | 294 |
| US United States | #120 | 655,696 | 1 in 507 | 651K | Juan | 592 |
| PE Peru | #4 | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | 555K | Juan | 192 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 46 | 33K | Jüän | 131 |
| PY Paraguay | #2 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 53 | — | Juan | 107 |
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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENIEC — DNI population names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual). 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)
Juan 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.
‘Graciousness’. Junjie J ‘Handsome and outstanding’. G
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
New Testament. See }John in main dictionary. Feminine form: Juana.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John I of Castile and Leonb. 1358ESnot in their usual nameKing of Castille and Leon (1358-1390)
- John II of Castileb. 1405ESnot in their usual nameKing of Castille and Leon
- Alfonso XII of Spainb. 1857ESnot in their usual nameking of Spain from 1874 to 1885
- Juan Negrínb. 1892ESPrime Minister of Spain (1892-1956)
- Sebastián Piñerab. 1949CLnot in their usual nameChilean entrepreneur and politician (1949–2024)
- Evo Moralesb. 1959BOnot in their usual namepresident of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
- Felipe VI of Spainb. 1968ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain since 2014
- Juan Garaizabalb. 1971ESSpanish sculptor (born 1971)
- Juan Guillermo Cuadradob. 1988COColombian footballer
- Juan Fernando Quinterob. 1993COColombian association football 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)
Attested in 126 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 651K | #60 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 555K | #3 |
| DO Dominican Republic | JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual) | 2025 | 33K | #4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2023 | 5.3K | #3 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #60 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.6K | #48 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.3K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 707 | #2 |
Reference works 8
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Juan?
- In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages; Juanito is a recorded short or pet form.
- Where does the name Juan come from?
- ‘Graciousness’. Junjie J ‘Handsome and outstanding’. G Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Juan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Juan in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juan.
- 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?
- In Spanish, from the personal name Juan, Spanish equivalent of John.
- How common is the name Juan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 655,696 people named Juan in 2020, about 1 in 507 residents.
- How common is Juan compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Juan is the 3rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Juan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juanThe 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, “Juan” — the 3rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.