Joaquin
Joaquin was given to 925 boys in 2025, #355 among boys’ names; 35,654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,800 Americans named Joaquin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joaquin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joaquin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joaquin is “a male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Joaquín.”
Borrowed from Spanish Joaquín.
/wɑˈkiːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joaquin?
#355 among boys’ names, 2025
Joaquin fell from #321 in 2015 to #355 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.56 to 0.54 per 1,000.
1,250 babies in 2008, the peak
Joaquin peaked in 2008, when 1,250 babies were given it (1,245 boys, #275 among boys’ names). The 925 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 925 | #355 | 0.54 |
| 2024 | 1,011 | #340 | 0.59 |
| 2023 | 999 | #335 | 0.58 |
| 2022 | 1,029 | #329 | 0.59 |
| 2021 | 1,083 | #309 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 1,083 | #307 | 0.63 |
| 2019 | 1,006 | #332 | 0.56 |
| 2018 | 954 | #347 | 0.53 |
| 2017 | 906 | #364 | 0.49 |
| 2016 | 1,003 | #346 | 0.53 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,082 | #321 | 0.56 |
| 2014 | 1,045 | #327 | 0.54 |
| 2013 | 953 | #340 | 0.50 |
| 2012 | 970 | #326 | 0.51 |
| 2011 | 950 | #328 | 0.50 |
| 2010 | 1,030 | #309 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 1,117 | #295 | 0.56 |
| 2008 | 1,245 | #275 | 0.61 |
| 2007 | 1,180 | #290 | 0.57 |
| 2006 | 1,225 | #285 | 0.60 |
| 2005 | 847 | #350 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 711 | #385 | 0.36 |
| 2003 | 559 | #452 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 467 | #495 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 454 | #502 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 367 | #563 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 377 | #540 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 354 | #557 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 312 | #584 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 305 | #590 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 311 | #580 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 298 | #603 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 299 | #592 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 270 | #626 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 256 | #638 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 280 | #598 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 263 | #604 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 228 | #629 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 239 | #587 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 222 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 255 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 247 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 232 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 248 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 219 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 270 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 258 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 217 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 206 | #587 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 248 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 250 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 204 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 217 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 188 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 179 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 163 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 135 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 114 | #709 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 120 | #680 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 102 | #732 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 111 | #707 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 118 | #711 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 109 | #743 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 92 | #794 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 90 | #804 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 94 | #792 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 91 | #802 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 95 | #763 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 85 | #819 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 87 | #800 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 64 | #934 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 66 | #909 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 59 | #935 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 85 | #763 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 74 | #819 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 69 | #821 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 65 | #851 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 57 | #914 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 55 | #960 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 48 | #972 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 58 | #824 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 52 | #885 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,067 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 49 | #952 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 52 | #881 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,057 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 55 | #825 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 48 | #917 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 46 | #911 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 50 | #891 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,022 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 49 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 52 | #894 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 73 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 58 | #873 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 68 | #791 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 66 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 56 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 57 | #893 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 53 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 57 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 70 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 59 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 55 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 26 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,638 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,161 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 10 | #916 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,332 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,300 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,209 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 6 | #903 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joaquin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joaquin has been given almost only to boys: 53 girls in 123 years of records.
Girls and boys named Joaquin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joaquin, and how old are they?
32,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 35,654 Americans ever recorded as Joaquin. The median Joaquin alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 38,466 people named Joaquin (143 women and girls, 38,323 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 169 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,680 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Joaquin born?
The states with the most babies named Joaquin are California, Texas and Florida, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 239 | #162 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 223 | #165 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 52 | #376 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 41 | #272 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 33 | #246 | 2.0× |
| New York | 27 | #574 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 22 | #299 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 21 | #355 | 0.7× |
| Oregon | 19 | #224 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 17 | #607 | 0.3× |
Where Joaquin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joaquin is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Joaquin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 35,826 babies since 1880, Joaquin is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 925 of their 925 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joaquin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joaquin and names like it
- Compare Joaquin and JoquanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoaquin peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joaquin since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Joaquin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Joaquin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Joaquin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.