Juan: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced WAHN · 1 syllable

Juan means “Yahweh is gracious”, from Celtic and Spanish.

Inherited from Old Spanish Johan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek (Ioannes), from Hebrew (yokhanan, literally “Yahweh is gracious”).

How popular is Juan?

Juan was the #159 name in the US in 2025, given to 2,318 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 38% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2000.

Babies named Juan in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2000).

Half of US adults named Juan are older than 36; most are between 19 and 71. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Juan have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Juan means “Yahweh is gracious”. It comes from Celtic and Spanish.

Juan is pronounced WAHN.

Juan was the #159 name in the US in 2025, given to 2,318 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 38% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2000.

Half of US adults named Juan are older than 36. Most are between 19 and 71.