Jovan
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #13,844 · #1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
Given to boys 90.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 240 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,984since 1966
Jovan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #1,743 | 93 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,735 | 95 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,744 | 94 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,551 | 115 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,514 | 117 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,398 | 124 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,523 | 111 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,617 | 101 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,314 | 137 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,288 | 141 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,157 | 162 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,128 | 170 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,080 | 173 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,135 | 161 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,073 | 174 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,019 | 190 | |
| 2009 | — | #920 | 225 | |
| 2008 | — | #886 | 237 | |
| 2007 | — | #868 | 239 | |
| 2006 | — | #844 | 239 | |
| 2005 | — | #875 | 209 | |
| 2004 | — | #750 | 247 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #767 | 230 |
| 2002 | — | #777 | 222 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #671 | 270 |
| 2000 | — | #682 | 260 | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #652 | 265 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #648 | 270 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #699 | 228 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #767 | 192 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | #697 | 231 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #691 | 228 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | #645 | 256 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | #643 | 257 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | #629 | 260 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | #622 | 265 |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 | #645 | 240 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 | #623 | 230 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 | #645 | 201 |
| 1986 | #1,910 | 58 | #589 | 227 |
| 1985 | #1,632 | 72 | #621 | 199 |
| 1984 | #1,604 | 69 | #614 | 192 |
| 1983 | #1,522 | 74 | #609 | 198 |
| 1982 | #1,417 | 86 | #567 | 228 |
| 1981 | #1,368 | 90 | #569 | 226 |
| 1980 | #1,552 | 75 | #581 | 218 |
| 1979 | #1,377 | 89 | #554 | 240 |
| 1978 | #1,669 | 63 | #609 | 188 |
| 1977 | #2,026 | 47 | #643 | 175 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 | #737 | 128 |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 | #1,191 | 50 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jovan! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jovan is popular in 1966
No state had 5 or more boys named Jovan in 1966, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jovan
- 8 spots since 2024 (#1,735 → #1,743)
- 345 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,743)
- 586 spots since 2015 (#1,157 → #1,743)
- Biggest jump: 454 spots in 1976 (#1,191 → #737)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 2005 (#750 → #875)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1979 at #554 (240 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 39 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1976–2009
- Highest: 1 in 7,079 boys born in 1998 were named Jovan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,366 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #554 in 1979, was only 1 in 7,173 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.6% of all boys named Jovan (2,452) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,537 (1966) | #3,537 |
| 1970s | 831 | #554 (1979) | #2,128 |
| 1980s | 2,159 | #567 (1982) | #606 |
| 1990s | 2,452 | #622 (1990) | #669 |
| 2000s | 2,378 | #671 (2001) | #804 |
| 2010s | 1,520 | #1,019 (2010) | #1,233 |
| 2020s | 638 | #1,398 (2020) | #1,614 |
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.
Jovan in 1966
Top boys' names in 1966
More about 1966
boys
1,783,461 boys got a published name in 1966; 1 in 297,244 of them was named Jovan, which outranked 22.1% of the 4,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,249Williard7
- #3,249Yosef7
- #3,249Zollie7
- #3,537Jovan6
- #3,537Adriel6
- #3,537Adrienne6
- #3,537Adron6
- #3,948Aarron5
- #3,948Abdel5
- #3,948Abelino5
Tied with 410 names at #3,537; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.