Joaquín

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim

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

Joaquín 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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

100,775 people

#916 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
403 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 386 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JoaquínLatin(measured from records)
ХоакинCyrillic(measured from records)
호아킨Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joaquin in AR Argentina, ES Spain, US United States and 4 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)

a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Joaquín 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.

Where Joaquín is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#68100,7751 in 496105KJoaquin228
AR Argentina#155≈66,000 est.≈1 in 6902.9KJoaquin172
US United States—38,4661 in 8.6K38KJoaquin403
CL Chile#174≈24,000 est.≈1 in 7721.3KJoaquin149
BR Brazil—16,9971 in 12K19KJoaquin71
UY Uruguay#33≈8,800 est.≈1 in 386—Joaquin102
SV El Salvador#249≈5,900 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Joaquin48

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Joaquín is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Joaquin, Joaquìn

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Joaquìn, Joaquin, Joaquîn

  • Lao given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Joaquin, Joaquìn, วากีนี, วากัน, J'Oaquin

  • Bulgarian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Joaquin, Хоакин, Joaquìn, Hoakin

  • Greek given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Spain, United States

    Also written Joaquin, Χοακιν

45 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(measured from records)

Joaquín is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Dios construirá

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

500100015002000Jeconiah, b. 616José Joaquín Pérez, b. 1801Joaquín Sorolla, b. 1863Enrique Granados, b. 1867Quino, b. 1932Joaquín Caparrós, b. 1955El Chapo, b. 1957Joaquin Phoenix, b. 1974Jorge Garbajosa, b. 1977Joaquín, b. 1981

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 23 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Joaquín
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20083.4K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20093.4K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20113.4K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20103.3K—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20123.1K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20163.1K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20073.1K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20133K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20142.9K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20122.9K—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20172.8K—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20062.7K—

Reference works 2

  • 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 Joaquín mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Joaquín have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Joaquín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joaquin.
Is Joaquín a male or female name?
Joaquín 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 Joaquín?
In the etymology graph, Jo, Joaquim and Joachim are forms of the same name in other languages; Ximo and Chimo are recorded short or pet forms.
How common is the name Joaquín?
In Spain, the national register counted 100,775 people named Joaquín, about 1 in 496 residents.
How common is Joaquín compared with other names?
In Spain, Joaquín is the 68th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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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, “Joaquín” — the 68th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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