Juan

What Juan means

Spanish, meaning “Yahweh is gracious”

Inherited from Old Spanish Johan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (yokhanán, literally “Yahweh is gracious”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Juan” (revision 93528378), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Juan?

US: Falling: down from #114 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #950 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 8,231 boys got the name (#55 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 737 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 10,877 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TX (3.43 per 1,000 boys), NV (2.75 per 1,000 boys), CA (2.48 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Juan is #159 in the US and #1153 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Juan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gian244 US · 16 E&W
• Jean176 US · 6 E&W
• Juno54 US · 8 E&W
• Jian22 US · 3 E&W
• Juni20 US
• Jiaan8 US
• Gean5 US
• Jion5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Juan

Boys

• Jorge#322Same root as George, meaning “farmer, earth worker”^*
• Jose#95Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Luis#144Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Ernesto#878Spanish form of Ernest, meaning “vigor, strife”^*
• Antonio#176Same root as Anthony, meaning “flower”^*

For a sister

• Kaitlyn#799Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #197 in 2015, #799 in 2025
• Morgan#312Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #121 in 2015, #312 in 2025
• Briana#661Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1994, with 5,000 babies; 431 in 2025
• Alejandra#604Same root as Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Megan#887Diminutive of Margaret, meaning “pearl”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Juan’s. Rank is US 2025.