In 2025, 27 US boys were named Javan, making it the 3,988th most common boys’ name of the year, up 263 places from #4,251 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 25 boys named Javan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,116, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 142. For comparison, it was #2,504 in 2015 and #3,493 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Javan in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 3,636 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,100 babies named Javan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 331 US boys were named Javan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Javon (18,406 babies since 1880), Javion (6,900 babies since 1880), Jayvon (3,893 babies since 1880) and Javen (3,561 babies since 1880).