Jovon
Last seen for girls in 1999 at #14,411 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 90.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 80 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,727since 1972
Jovon 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,861 | 15 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,742 | 21 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,362 | 23 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,480 | 22 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,249 | 35 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,293 | 34 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,711 | 20 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,895 | 39 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,517 | 49 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,232 | 58 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,203 | 60 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,161 | 62 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,830 | 79 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,943 | 69 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,237 | 53 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,989 | 60 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,312 | 46 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,046 | 53 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,629 | 72 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,504 | 80 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,655 | 64 |
| 1998 | — | #1,536 | 70 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,519 | 68 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,533 | 65 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,417 | 70 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,303 | 80 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,266 | 80 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,187 | 88 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #1,282 | 76 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #1,278 | 75 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #1,228 | 76 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #1,249 | 67 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #1,102 | 72 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #1,268 | 57 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 | #1,198 | 58 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #1,347 | 48 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 | #1,124 | 66 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 | #1,014 | 80 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 | #1,166 | 61 |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 | #1,241 | 55 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #1,214 | 54 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 | #1,390 | 43 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | #1,346 | 43 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jovon! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Jovon is popular in 1972
No state had 5 or more boys named Jovon in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jovon
- 971 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #5,861)
- 1,720 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #5,861)
- 1,150 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1981 at #1,014 (80 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 32 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,390 boys born in 1981 were named Jovon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.0% of all boys named Jovon (736) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1973, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 230 | #1,214 (1978) | #2,632 |
| 1980s | 652 | #1,014 (1981) | #1,187 |
| 1990s | 736 | #1,187 (1992) | #1,398 |
| 2000s | 634 | #1,504 (2000) | #1,985 |
| 2010s | 363 | #2,232 (2011) | #3,317 |
| 2020s | 112 | #4,141 (2020) | #5,231 |
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.
Jovon in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 324,322 of them was named Jovon, which outranked 13.3% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 765 names at #4,986; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.