Juan

Where Juan comes from

The dictionaries list Juan as a given name — a male given name from Manx or Spanish, equivalent to English John — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Manx
  • Spanish
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #270 among boys — 39 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Juan Perón born
    president of Argentina
  3. 1983
    Juan Guaidó born
    Venezuelan politician and former President of the National Assembly
  4. 1999
    Peak, #46
    7,800 babies named Juan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #100.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Manx or Spanish, equivalent to English John.
Namesakes
  • Juan Perón · president of Argentina, 1895–1974
  • Juan Guaidó · Venezuelan politician and former President of the National Assembly, born 1983
  • Juan Mata Pata · Spanish association football player, born 1988
  • Juan Gris · Spanish artist, 1887–1927
  • Juan Ponce de León · Spanish explorer and conquistador, 1460–1521

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.