Juwan
Juwan was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,406 among boys’ names; 3,790 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,680 Americans named Juwan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 26 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Juwan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Juwan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Juwan is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Jawan; variant form Juwann.”
/dʒuˈwɑn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Juwan?
#7,406 among boys’ names, 2025
Juwan fell from #4,463 in 2015 to #7,406 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 6.4 per million.
641 babies in 1997, the peak
Juwan peaked in 1997, when 641 boys were given it, #380 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,406 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,152 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,399 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,926 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,547 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,965 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,601 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,143 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,198 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,834 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,463 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,966 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,712 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,317 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,312 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,762 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,201 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,161 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,569 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,951 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,049 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,043 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 106 | #1,283 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,070 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,008 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 180 | #837 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 395 | #524 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 641 | #380 | 0.34 |
| 1996 | 431 | #490 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 240 | #681 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 332 | #561 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 230 | #675 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 125 | #960 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,522 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,656 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,276 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,851 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,568 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,999 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,811 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,506 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,315 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,110 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,543 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,699 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,785 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,490 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Juwan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Juwan has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Juwan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Juwan, and how old are they?
3,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,790 Americans ever recorded as Juwan. The median Juwan alive today is 29 years old; half are between 26 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,968 people named Juwan (102 women and girls, 2,866 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,600 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 106 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 288 |
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 Juwan born?
The states with the most babies named Juwan are Michigan, New York and Illinois, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 237 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 229 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 194 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 183 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Maryland | 183 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Florida | 163 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 163 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 158 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 132 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 120 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Juwan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Juwan is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1970 it was given 2.7 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 Juwan 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,552 babies since 1880, Juwan is the most given (83% of them).
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 Juwan
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 Juwan and names like it
- Compare Juwan and JuwonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJuwan peaked in 1997.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Juwan since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Juwan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Juwan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Juwan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.