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Joandry vs Joaquin

American parents have registered 35,654 Joaquins since 1880, against 75 Joandrys. Joaquin is still ahead, with 925 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Joandry against Joaquin, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Joandry Joaquin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Joaquin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1886 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Joandry had 18 and Joaquin had 1,003.

Side by side

  Joandry Joaquin
Total US births 7535,654
Most in one year 181,250
Babies in 2025 under 5925
Estimated living today 7033,000
Median age today 1016
Peak year 20162008
Best rank 5,124th boys275th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked355th
First recorded 20061886
Girls / boys 0 / 7553 / 35,601

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Joaquins alive today are over 16; half the Joandrys are over 10. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Joandry and Joaquin.