Meaning not yet researched.
Javon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #357 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #357 in 2001; #1,198 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Javon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,198 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #357.
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Javon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 boys in 2025. Peak: #357 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 742 (2001).
In 2025, 169 US boys were named Javon, making it the 1,198th most common boys’ name of the year, up 6 places from #1,204 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 169 boys named Javon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #357, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 742. For comparison, it was #853 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Javon in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 5 babies. In all, 18,406 US babies have been given the name, 4.1% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,685 babies named Javon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,854 US boys were named Javon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 220. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,107 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Javon ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #467 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Javion (6,900 babies since 1880), Jayvon (3,893 babies since 1880), Jayvion (3,656 babies since 1880) and Javan (3,636 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaivon, Javonne and Jayvyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jaivon (722), Javonne (679), Jayvyn (659), Jahvon (627), Jaevon (520), Jaiven (484), Jaivion (463), Jaevion (454), Javone (436), Javaun (309), Jaiveon (294), Javonn (275), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Javon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 10 | #467 | #509 |
| Georgia | 14 | #687 | #638 |
| Indiana | 9 | #690 | #692 |
| Ohio | 12 | #728 | #707 |
| Missouri | 7 | #749 | #780 |
| Michigan | 9 | #799 | #1,040 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,092 | #594 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,095 | #780 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,156 | #729 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,194 | #607 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,201 | #680 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,321 | #889 |
| California | 6 | #2,318 | #2,131 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 169 | #1,198 |
| 2024 | — | — | 169 | #1,204 |
| 2023 | — | — | 185 | #1,137 |
| 2022 | — | — | 174 | #1,173 |
| 2021 | — | — | 182 | #1,120 |
| 2020 | — | — | 176 | #1,120 |
| 2019 | — | — | 170 | #1,145 |
| 2018 | — | — | 195 | #1,042 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,956 | 214 | #969 |
| 2016 | — | — | 220 | #949 |
| 2015 | — | — | 263 | #853 |
| 2014 | — | — | 301 | #775 |
| 2013 | — | — | 309 | #747 |
| 2012 | — | — | 320 | #727 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,943 | 412 | #600 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,808 | 445 | #573 |
| 2009 | — | — | 555 | #490 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,267 | 629 | #446 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,057 | 715 | #407 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,961 | 714 | #410 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,609 | 703 | #403 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,343 | 647 | #403 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,321 | 562 | #447 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,811 | 627 | #402 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,931 | 742 | #357 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,316 | 705 | #371 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,931 | 571 | #412 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,875 | 552 | #420 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,303 | 592 | #396 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,897 | 542 | #419 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,533 | 544 | #417 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,938 | 500 | #450 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,372 | 497 | #442 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,616 | 407 | #497 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,393 | 416 | #485 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,760 | 343 | #535 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,126 | 280 | #584 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,744 | 224 | #638 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,459 | 190 | #662 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,872 | 177 | #678 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,821 | 153 | #717 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,949 | 117 | #810 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,612 | 130 | #758 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,861 | 117 | #820 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,506 | 104 | #872 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,624 | 102 | #889 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,639 | 93 | #910 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,704 | 104 | #843 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,753 | 108 | #821 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,224 | 81 | #932 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,699 | 50 | #1,198 |
| 1974 | — | — | 41 | #1,340 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,946 | 23 | #1,901 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,184 | 21 | #1,994 |
| 1971 | — | — | 23 | #1,888 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,386 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,358 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,451 | 13 | #2,385 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,963 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,309 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).