Meaning not yet researched.
Jovani: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 168 in 2025. Its best rank was #695 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #695 in 2009; #1,208 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jovani in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,208 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #695.
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Jovani: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 168 boys in 2025. Peak: #695 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 346 (2009).
In 2025, 168 US boys were named Jovani, making it the 1,208th most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #1,173 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 177 boys named Jovani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #695, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 346. For comparison, it was #961 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jovani in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 7,490 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,611 babies named Jovani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,729 US boys were named Jovani; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,167 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jovani ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #585 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jovanni (7,027 babies since 1880), Jovanny (4,890 babies since 1880) and Jovany (4,690 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jovanie, Jovannie and Jovonni 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: Jovanie (378), Jovannie (344), Jovonni (288), Jovoni (106), Joevanni (71), Joevany (29), Joevani (28), Jovonie (17), Jovanii (12), Jovahni (11), Jovahny (5), Jovania (5).
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 Jovani 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #585 | #668 |
| Texas | 32 | #835 | #784 |
| Maryland | 5 | #859 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #866 | #613 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #961 | #678 |
| Arizona | 5 | #977 | #646 |
| California | 19 | #1,096 | #867 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,110 | #567 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,174 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,353 | #1,294 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,385 | #762 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,439 | #1,300 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 168 | #1,208 |
| 2024 | — | — | 177 | #1,173 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,226 | 148 | #1,297 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,400 | 174 | #1,174 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,800 | 179 | #1,137 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,555 | 195 | #1,041 |
| 2019 | — | — | 170 | #1,146 |
| 2018 | — | — | 155 | #1,213 |
| 2017 | — | — | 171 | #1,124 |
| 2016 | — | — | 192 | #1,036 |
| 2015 | — | — | 215 | #961 |
| 2014 | — | — | 231 | #925 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,849 | 222 | #922 |
| 2012 | — | — | 275 | #808 |
| 2011 | — | — | 292 | #771 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,171 | 293 | #765 |
| 2009 | — | — | 346 | #695 |
| 2008 | — | — | 278 | #789 |
| 2007 | — | — | 288 | #766 |
| 2006 | — | — | 319 | #695 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,713 | 277 | #730 |
| 2004 | — | — | 242 | #757 |
| 2003 | — | — | 224 | #786 |
| 2002 | — | — | 216 | #799 |
| 2001 | — | — | 236 | #740 |
| 2000 | — | — | 180 | #877 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,804 | 155 | #940 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,224 | 144 | #964 |
| 1997 | — | — | 139 | #957 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,142 | 120 | #1,026 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,425 | 110 | #1,076 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,496 | 105 | #1,100 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,757 | 118 | #1,012 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,993 | 100 | #1,101 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,768 | 91 | #1,158 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,710 | 80 | #1,230 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,461 | 58 | #1,444 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,365 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,960 |
| 1986 | — | — | 43 | #1,549 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,217 | 27 | #2,096 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,127 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,985 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,087 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,295 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,590 | 10 | #3,983 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,350 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,882 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,599 |
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).