Joaquin

Where Joaquin comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Joaquín.
— Wiktionary's entry for Joaquin
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1837
    Joaquin Miller born
    American poet and frontiersman
  2. 1886
    First appearance
    #845 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2005
    Joaquin Seys born
    Belgian footballer
  4. 2008
    Peak, #275
    1,245 babies named Joaquin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Joaquín.
Namesakes
  • Joaquin Seys · Belgian footballer, born 2005
  • Joaquin Miller · American poet and frontiersman, 1837–1913
  • Joaquin Bernas · Filipino academic, 1932–2021
  • Joaquin Rivas · Salvadoran association football player, born 1992
  • Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger · American physicist, 1923–1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.