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Juwan

#7,406 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Juwan has been given to 3,790 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #7,406 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 641 recorded.

Babies named Juwan, 2025

1 in 301,000

Juwan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Juwan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Juwan means

Juwan is a given name.

The naming story behind Juwan

Wikidata records Juwan as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116366784, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,780 boys were recorded with the name Juwan between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 641 in 1997; its best national rank was #380 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,965 in 2020 to #7,406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,463 in 2015 to #7,406 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Juwan between 1970 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1970; its best national rank was #8,573 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Juwan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,406
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Juwan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juwan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juwans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Juwan was born before 1997 — so the typical Juwan is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
69.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,780
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 69.3% of all recorded uses (2,621).

Is Juwan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,254
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,441
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,943
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.7%
Peak was 1997 (641)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#380
1997

Spellings of Juwan

Juwan is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 43.5% against Juwan's 0.45%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Juwan is used

Across 1910–2025, Juwan was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 55,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 11,111
  2. 2Maryland1 in 14,286
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 25,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Juwan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Juwan around the world

Where Juwan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1996–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Juwan

People whose public names include Juwan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Juwan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,441
Best rank ever
#380
1997
Peak year
1997
641 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,780
Count in 2025
11

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,573
1970
Peak year
1970
5 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Juwan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Juwan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Juwan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RaekwonDequanDeionDaquanDakotahShaquanDevontaAustenTaylerTyreekAustonTyrek

Sibling names for Juwan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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