Jovani
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · #1,204 for boys in 2025, 168 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 346 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,355since 1974
Jovani over time
Rank among boys' names. Jovani has never cracked the top 600 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 | — | #1,204 | 168 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,172 | 177 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #1,294 | 148 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,171 | 174 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,135 | 179 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,039 | 195 |
| 2019 | — | #1,144 | 170 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,207 | 155 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,121 | 171 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,035 | 192 | |
| 2015 | — | #958 | 215 | |
| 2014 | — | #923 | 231 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #922 | 222 |
| 2012 | — | #807 | 275 | |
| 2011 | — | #768 | 292 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #764 | 293 |
| 2009 | — | #695 | 346 | |
| 2008 | — | #787 | 278 | |
| 2007 | — | #764 | 288 | |
| 2006 | — | #695 | 319 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #729 | 277 |
| 2004 | — | #757 | 242 | |
| 2003 | — | #783 | 224 | |
| 2002 | — | #798 | 216 | |
| 2001 | — | #740 | 236 | |
| 2000 | — | #875 | 180 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #940 | 155 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #962 | 144 |
| 1997 | — | #957 | 139 | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #1,025 | 120 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,096 | 105 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #1,007 | 118 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #1,097 | 100 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #1,155 | 91 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,226 | 80 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #1,433 | 58 |
| 1988 | — | #1,355 | 58 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,938 | 32 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,535 | 43 | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,270 | 22 | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,838 | 10 |
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| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jovani! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jovani is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#342 · 1 in 1,833
- Arkansas#432 · 1 in 2,510
- Massachusetts#461 · 1 in 4,107
- California#464 · 1 in 3,971
- Texas#494 · 1 in 3,853
Best ever in a state: #316 in Connecticut, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nevada | #342 | 8 | 1 in 1,833 |
| Arkansas | #432 | 6 | 1 in 2,510 |
| Massachusetts | #461 | 8 | 1 in 4,107 |
| California | #464 | 64 | 1 in 3,971 |
| Texas | #494 | 47 | 1 in 3,853 |
| New Jersey | #524 | 11 | 1 in 4,267 |
| Wisconsin | #539 | 7 | 1 in 4,187 |
| Florida | #567 | 23 | 1 in 4,304 |
| Indiana | #569 | 9 | 1 in 4,250 |
| Arizona | #606 | 8 | 1 in 5,307 |
| Colorado | #615 | 6 | 1 in 4,997 |
| Washington | #638 | 7 | 1 in 4,960 |
| North Carolina | #663 | 9 | 1 in 5,813 |
| Illinois | #770 | 11 | 1 in 7,014 |
| New York | #1,502 | 6 | 1 in 18,046 |
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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 Jovani
- 32 spots since 2024 (#1,172 → #1,204)
- 165 spots since 2020 (#1,039 → #1,204)
- 246 spots since 2015 (#958 → #1,204)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 2001 (#875 → #740)
- Biggest drop: 115 spots in 2013 (#807 → #922)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2009 at #695 (346 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1997–2015
- Highest: 1 in 5,733 boys born in 2009 were named Jovani (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,167 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.4% of all boys named Jovani (2,606) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 18 | #4,157 (1978) | #4,949 |
| 1980s | 312 | #1,355 (1988) | #2,246 |
| 1990s | 1,162 | #940 (1999) | #1,053 |
| 2000s | 2,606 | #695 (2009) | #762 |
| 2010s | 2,216 | #764 (2010) | #965 |
| 2020s | 1,041 | #1,039 (2020) | #1,169 |
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.
Jovani in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 369,568 of them was named Jovani, which outranked 14.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 7,210 of them was named Jovani, which outranked 94.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).