Javon
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #1,196 for boys in 2025, 169 births
Given to boys 95.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 742 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,646since 1960
Javon over time
Rank among boys' names. Javon has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,196 | 169 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,204 | 169 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,137 | 185 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,171 | 174 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,119 | 182 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,119 | 176 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,144 | 170 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,040 | 195 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #968 | 214 |
| 2016 | — | #946 | 220 | |
| 2015 | — | #853 | 263 | |
| 2014 | — | #775 | 301 | |
| 2013 | — | #747 | 309 | |
| 2012 | — | #727 | 320 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #600 | 412 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #571 | 445 |
| 2009 | — | #490 | 555 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #445 | 629 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #407 | 715 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #410 | 714 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #403 | 703 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #403 | 647 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #447 | 562 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #402 | 627 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #357 | 742 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | #371 | 705 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #412 | 571 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #419 | 552 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #396 | 592 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #418 | 542 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #417 | 544 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #450 | 500 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 | #442 | 497 |
| 1992 | #3,581 | 30 | #497 | 407 |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | #484 | 416 |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 | #535 | 343 |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 | #583 | 280 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #637 | 224 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | #661 | 190 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 | #676 | 177 |
| 1985 | #2,804 | 33 | #715 | 153 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | #808 | 117 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 | #758 | 130 |
| 1982 | #2,830 | 32 | #819 | 117 |
| 1981 | #2,488 | 38 | #870 | 104 |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 | #889 | 102 |
| 1979 | #2,621 | 34 | #906 | 93 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 | #841 | 104 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | #819 | 108 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #929 | 81 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #1,191 | 50 |
| 1974 | — | #1,335 | 41 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #1,871 | 23 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | — | #1,862 | 23 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #2,311 | 13 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Javon! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Javon is popular in 1983
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#302 · 1 in 3,723
- Maryland#322 · 1 in 3,708
- Virginia#358 · 1 in 3,885
- Michigan#384 · 1 in 5,214
- Georgia#430 · 1 in 4,498
Best ever in a state: #87 in District of Columbia, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #302 | 5 | 1 in 3,723 |
| Maryland | #322 | 7 | 1 in 3,708 |
| Virginia | #358 | 9 | 1 in 3,885 |
| Michigan | #384 | 12 | 1 in 5,214 |
| Georgia | #430 | 9 | 1 in 4,498 |
| Florida | #436 | 15 | 1 in 4,542 |
| New Jersey | #518 | 6 | 1 in 7,312 |
| New York | #559 | 15 | 1 in 7,780 |
| Louisiana | #576 | 6 | 1 in 6,115 |
| Illinois | #767 | 6 | 1 in 13,628 |
| California | #1,387 | 6 | 1 in 34,485 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Javon
- 8 spots since 2024 (#1,204 → #1,196)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#1,119 → #1,196)
- 343 spots since 2015 (#853 → #1,196)
- Biggest jump: 262 spots in 1976 (#1,191 → #929)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2012 (#600 → #727)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2001 at #357 (742 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1976–2017
- Highest: 1 in 2,618 boys born in 2001 were named Javon (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,107 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.4% of all boys named Javon (6,599) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32 | #2,308 (1969) | #2,886 |
| 1970s | 553 | #819 (1977) | #1,500 |
| 1980s | 1,594 | #583 (1989) | #742 |
| 1990s | 4,964 | #396 (1997) | #447 |
| 2000s | 6,599 | #357 (2001) | #414 |
| 2010s | 2,849 | #571 (2010) | #837 |
| 2020s | 1,055 | #1,119 (2021) | #1,158 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Javon in 1983
Top girls' names in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
girls
1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 49,136 of them was named Javon, which outranked 78.5% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,552Turquoise35
- #2,552Valery35
- #2,552Yalonda35
- #2,595Javon34
- #2,595Adelaide34
- #2,595Alica34
- #2,595Annetta34
- #2,659Agatha33
- #2,659Aislinn33
- #2,659Anel33
Tied with 63 names at #2,595; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 13,789 of them was named Javon, which outranked 89.7% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).