Juana
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a female given name, equivalent to English Jane, Jean, Joan, Joanne, or Joanna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xwana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Juana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 80(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 143
- PEPeru≈1 in 170
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #357 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Jane, Jean, Joan, Joanne, or Joanna
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
How Juana is read(measured from records)
Juana 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.
- Spanish84%
- English6.9%
Spanish feminine form of Juan
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Juana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #28 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | 142K | Juana | 90 |
| AR Argentina | #117 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 299 | 1.7K | Juana | 121 |
| ES Spain | #99 | 101,137 | 1 in 495 | 109K | Juana | 184 |
| VE Venezuela | #57 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 317 | — | Juana | 44 |
| BO Bolivia | #479 | 89,562 | 1 in 130 | 90K | Juana | 43 |
| NI Nicaragua | #9 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | — | Juana | 28 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #9 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 27K | Juana | 62 |
| SV El Salvador | #81 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 206 | — | Juana | 32 |
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: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); RENIEC — DNI population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SERECÍ — civil registry names; 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)
Juana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
JOHANA, JOHANE U J UANA
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In Swahili, Reciprocal form of -jua: to understand one another, to compromise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Juana Enríquez de Mendoza y Fernández de Córdobab. 1425ESAragonese queen
- Joan of Portugalb. 1439PTnot in their usual namePortuguese infanta
- Joanna la Beltranejab. 1462ESnot in their usual nameCastillian infanta and queen, queen consort of Portugal
- Juana I of Castileb. 1479ESQueen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516
- Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugalb. 1535ESnot in their usual nameSpanish infanta, Austrian archduchess, Portuguese princess
- Juana Inés de la Cruzb. 1651MXMexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
- Mercedes of Orléansb. 1860ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain
- Mirtha Legrandb. 1927ARnot in their usual nameArgentine actress and television presenter
- Juanita Castrob. 1933CUnot in their usual namesister of Fidel Castro, stateswoman (1933-2023)
- Juana Acostab. 1976COColombian actress
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 90 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 142K | #6 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 109K | #40 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 101K | #91 |
| BO Bolivia | SERECÍ — civil registry names | 2024 | 90K | #2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual) | 2025 | 27K | #3 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1.7K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 1.7K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.1K | #133 |
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2023 | 915 | #9 |
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Juana mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Jane, Jean, Joan, Joanne, or Joanna Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Juana?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Juanita is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Juana?
- A machine transcription gives /xwana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Juana a male or female name?
- Juana is a female 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 Juana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 188 thousand people named Juana in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juana.
- How common is the name Juana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 101,137 people named Juana, about 1 in 495 residents.
- How common is Juana compared with other names?
- In Peru, Juana is the 28th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Juana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juanaThe 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, “Juana” — the 28th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.