Meaning not yet researched.
Jovon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,017 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,017 in 1981; #5,991 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jovon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,991 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #1,017.
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Jovon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,017 in 1981 · most boys in one year: 88 (1992).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Jovon, making it the 5,991st most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,044 places from #7,035 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 12 boys named Jovon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,017, reached in 1981. The most boys given the name in a single year was 88, in 1992. For comparison, it was #4,802 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jovon in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 10 babies. In all, 3,016 US babies have been given the name, 9.6% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 821 babies named Jovon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 231 US boys were named Jovon; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jovan (11,063 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jovonne 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: Jovonne (205).
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 Jovon 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 | — | — | 15 | #5,991 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,035 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,804 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,531 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,435 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,212 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,550 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,834 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,282 |
| 2016 | — | — | 34 | #3,330 |
| 2015 | — | — | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,417 |
| 2013 | — | — | 39 | #2,922 |
| 2012 | — | — | 49 | #2,537 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,249 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,661 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,214 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,172 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,838 |
| 2006 | — | — | 69 | #1,957 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,255 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #2,005 |
| 2003 | — | — | 46 | #2,331 |
| 2002 | — | — | 53 | #2,059 |
| 2001 | — | — | 72 | #1,639 |
| 2000 | — | — | 80 | #1,511 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,510 | 64 | #1,665 |
| 1998 | — | — | 70 | #1,541 |
| 1997 | — | — | 68 | #1,528 |
| 1996 | — | — | 65 | #1,542 |
| 1995 | — | — | 70 | #1,424 |
| 1994 | — | — | 80 | #1,308 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,481 | 80 | #1,272 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,359 | 88 | #1,190 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,176 | 76 | #1,286 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,649 | 75 | #1,279 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,725 | 76 | #1,237 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,445 | 67 | #1,254 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,757 | 67 | #1,181 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,051 | 72 | #1,107 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,218 | 57 | #1,271 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,655 | 58 | #1,207 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,769 | 48 | #1,354 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,578 | 66 | #1,128 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,021 | 80 | #1,017 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,658 | 61 | #1,168 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,960 | 55 | #1,248 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,615 | 54 | #1,218 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,813 | 43 | #1,398 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,736 | 43 | #1,365 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,676 | 16 | #2,586 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,010 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,828 | 6 | #4,791 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,351 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,014 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,300 | — | — |
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).