Meaning not yet researched.
Jovan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #554 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #554 in 1979; #1,746 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jovan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,746 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #554.
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Jovan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 boys in 2025. Peak: #554 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 270 (2001).
In 2025, 93 US boys were named Jovan, making it the 1,746th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #1,745 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 95 boys named Jovan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #554, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 270, in 2001. For comparison, it was #1,157 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jovan in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 11,063 US babies have been given the name, 9.8% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,798 babies named Jovan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,128 US boys were named Jovan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,366 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jovan ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #812 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jovon (3,016 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jovian, Joven and Jovin 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jovian (564), Joven (274), Jovin (216), Jovahn (174), Joevon (171), Juvon (141), Jovaun (129), Jovann (120), Jovanne (93), Jovane (74), Joevan (28), Jovonn (27), 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 Jovan 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #812 | #611 |
| Michigan | 7 | #949 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,443 | #1,409 |
| California | 12 | #1,475 | #1,033 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,727 | #820 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 93 | #1,746 |
| 2024 | — | — | 95 | #1,745 |
| 2023 | — | — | 94 | #1,752 |
| 2022 | — | — | 115 | #1,554 |
| 2021 | — | — | 117 | #1,518 |
| 2020 | — | — | 124 | #1,404 |
| 2019 | — | — | 111 | #1,526 |
| 2018 | — | — | 101 | #1,619 |
| 2017 | — | — | 137 | #1,318 |
| 2016 | — | — | 141 | #1,293 |
| 2015 | — | — | 162 | #1,157 |
| 2014 | — | — | 170 | #1,129 |
| 2013 | — | — | 173 | #1,080 |
| 2012 | — | — | 161 | #1,138 |
| 2011 | — | — | 174 | #1,075 |
| 2010 | — | — | 190 | #1,022 |
| 2009 | — | — | 225 | #922 |
| 2008 | — | — | 237 | #887 |
| 2007 | — | — | 239 | #868 |
| 2006 | — | — | 239 | #844 |
| 2005 | — | — | 209 | #875 |
| 2004 | — | — | 247 | #751 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,710 | 230 | #767 |
| 2002 | — | — | 222 | #779 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,535 | 270 | #671 |
| 2000 | — | — | 260 | #683 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,956 | 265 | #656 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,695 | 270 | #648 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,787 | 228 | #700 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,982 | 192 | #768 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,924 | 231 | #697 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,316 | 228 | #691 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,581 | 256 | #645 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,298 | 257 | #643 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,120 | 260 | #631 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,250 | 265 | #622 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,127 | 240 | #647 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,061 | 230 | #623 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,251 | 201 | #645 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,921 | 227 | #590 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,639 | 199 | #621 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,607 | 192 | #616 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,526 | 198 | #609 |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,423 | 228 | #568 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,375 | 226 | #569 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,559 | 218 | #581 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,383 | 240 | #554 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,677 | 188 | #609 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,041 | 175 | #644 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,406 | 128 | #737 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,558 | 50 | #1,199 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,497 | 17 | #2,404 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,785 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,350 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,164 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,668 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,716 |
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).