girls:
53 births since 1973
#5663 (1st percentile)
boys:
33.6k births since 1886
#616 (87th percentile)
overall:
33.7k births since 1886
#1371 (82nd percentile)
The name Joaquin is the #1,371 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,699 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 82.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #616 (86.6% percentile) for all time with 33,646 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,663 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1973.
Joaquin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Joaquin is available in 121 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Joaquin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Joaquin reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 70.5% percentile (ranked #268) with 571 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 584 births per million (ranked 67.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Joaquin ranks #317 for boys (65.3% percentile) with 544 births per million, which is 93.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Joaquin reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #892) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joaquin".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Joaquin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Joaquin is pronounced as wah-KEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HWAH-keen, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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