Meaning not yet researched.
Jawan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,067 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,067 in 1997; #8,540 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jawan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,540 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,067.
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Jawan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,067 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 119 (1997).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Jawan, making it the 8,540th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,796 places from #10,336 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 boys named Jawan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,067, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #11,292 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jawan in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 1,474 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 628 babies named Jawan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 90 US boys were named Jawan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jawaun, Jawon and Jawuan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jawaun (867), Jawon (810), Jawuan (691), Jawaan (199), Jawann (167), Jawun (48), Jaewon (48), Jawone (21), Jaywon (16), Jaywen (13), Jawayne (11), Jaiwan (6), 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 Jawan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,540 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,336 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,958 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,261 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #7,832 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #9,070 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #7,895 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,893 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,823 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,131 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,292 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #9,147 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,247 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,468 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,302 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,518 |
| 2009 | — | — | 16 | #5,676 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,349 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,289 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,425 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,922 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,334 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,449 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,272 |
| 2001 | — | — | 84 | #1,466 |
| 2000 | — | — | 66 | #1,718 |
| 1999 | — | — | 58 | #1,758 |
| 1998 | — | — | 67 | #1,578 |
| 1997 | — | — | 119 | #1,067 |
| 1996 | — | — | 82 | #1,326 |
| 1995 | — | — | 71 | #1,408 |
| 1994 | — | — | 64 | #1,484 |
| 1993 | — | — | 55 | #1,627 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,790 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,034 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,462 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,945 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,646 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,914 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,127 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,768 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,750 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,982 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,187 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,374 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,639 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,448 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,294 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,832 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,652 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,774 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,284 | 8 | #3,997 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,864 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,181 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,606 | — | — |
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).