In 2025, 925 US boys were named Joaquin, making it the 355th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #340 in 2024. That is 86 fewer than the 1,011 boys named Joaquin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #275, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,245. For comparison, it was #321 in 2015 and #822 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joaquin in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 35,654 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,899 babies named Joaquin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,999 US boys were named Joaquin; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,083. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,847 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joaquin ranked highest in California in 2025, at #162 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Juaquin, Joachim and Joaquim are summarised on this page.