Jovana
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 185 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,048since 1975
Jovana over time
Rank among girls' names. Jovana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 |
| 2009 | #3,619 | 44 |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 |
| 2005 | #2,636 | 64 |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 |
| 2003 | #2,203 | 78 |
| 2002 | #2,178 | 76 |
| 2001 | #1,132 | 185 |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,367 | 55 |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,438 | 112 |
| 1992 | #2,078 | 65 |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 |
| 1990 | #2,174 | 59 |
| 1989 | #3,330 | 31 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 |
| 1984 | #3,144 | 27 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 |
| 1980 | #2,342 | 41 |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 |
| 1978 | #3,009 | 26 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jovana! It came in at #6,484, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Jovana is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#686 · 1 in 4,380
- California#711 · 1 in 5,310
- Texas#736 · 1 in 5,270
- Illinois#1,276 · 1 in 12,533
- New York#1,960 · 1 in 22,620
Best ever in a state: #565 in Arizona, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #686 | 6 | 1 in 4,380 |
| California | #711 | 47 | 1 in 5,310 |
| Texas | #736 | 26 | 1 in 5,270 |
| Illinois | #1,276 | 6 | 1 in 12,533 |
| New York | #1,960 | 5 | 1 in 22,620 |
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See more about Jovana
- 4,750 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #10,917)
- 5,430 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #10,917)
- 4,681 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2001 at #1,132 (185 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,733 girls born in 2001 were named Jovana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Jovana (720) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 94 | #3,009 (1978) | #4,104 |
| 1980s | 287 | #2,342 (1980) | #3,206 |
| 1990s | 588 | #1,438 (1993) | #2,390 |
| 2000s | 720 | #1,132 (2001) | #2,707 |
| 2010s | 258 | #3,360 (2010) | #5,469 |
| 2020s | 101 | #5,465 (2022) | #7,176 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jovana in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 16,152 of them was named Jovana, which outranked 90.9% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,426Susie113
- #1,426Therese113
- #1,426Tosha113
- #1,438Jovana112
- #1,438Christopher112
- #1,438Jalyn112
- #1,438Malissa112
- #1,447Abbigail111
- #1,447Camila111
- #1,447Lakisha111
Tied with 8 names at #1,438; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.