Meaning not yet researched.
Jovita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #932 in 1930.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #932 in 1930; #12,494 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jovita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,494 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1930, at #932.
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Jovita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #932 in 1930 · most girls in one year: 62 (1930).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Jovita, making it the 12,494th most common girls’ name of the year, down 901 places from #11,593 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Jovita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #932, reached in 1930. That year also had the most girls given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #13,671 in 2015 and #1,812 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jovita in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 5 babies. In all, 3,297 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 442 babies named Jovita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 52 US girls were named Jovita; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jovetta 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: Jovetta (7).
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 Jovita 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 | 7 | #12,494 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,593 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,680 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,597 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,230 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,084 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,196 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,671 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,453 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,422 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,371 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,791 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,922 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,536 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,257 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,892 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,328 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,597 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,732 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,031 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,462 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,039 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,190 | — | — |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,730 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,193 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,762 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,173 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,819 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,109 | 5 | #3,771 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1935 | 50 | #978 | — | — |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1930 | 62 | #932 | — | — |
| 1929 | 57 | #953 | — | — |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1926 | 52 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1924 | 54 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,932 | — | — |
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).