Juan
Juan is ranked 137th among boys in 2024 (2,601 births). Its best rank was 46th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #137up 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,6010.15% of boys
- Peak year
- 20058,230 births
- Best rank
- #46in 1999
- Since 1880
- 366,010people given the name
The story in the numbers
363,250 boys have been named Juan in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 8,230 births — 0.41% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 100 → 137).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 2000s alone account for 21%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 45 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,760 girls have also been given it, 0.75% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Juan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 526 | |
| 1890s | 538 | |
| 1900s | 912 | |
| 1910s | 3,113 | |
| 1920s | 7,039 | |
| 1930s | 6,614 | |
| 1940s | 10,556 | |
| 1950s | 18,768 | |
| 1960s | 23,459 | |
| 1970s | 43,400 | |
| 1980s | 51,449 | |
| 1990s | 70,913 | |
| 2000s | 75,845 | |
| 2010s | 37,420 | |
| 2020s | 12,698 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Juan was the 55th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Juan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Josepeak 2002
- Carlospeak 2001
- Franciscopeak 1993
- Guillermopeak 1998
- Enriquepeak 2000
- Hectorpeak 2005
- Antoniopeak 1997
- Juliopeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.