Javan
Javan was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,987 among boys’ names; 3,636 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,380 Americans named Javan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Javan?
#3,987 among boys’ names, 2025
Javan fell from #2,503 in 2015 to #3,987 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 15.8 per million.
142 babies in 2004, the peak
Javan peaked in 2004, when 142 boys were given it, #1,115 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,987 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,248 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,588 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,223 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,682 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,328 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,291 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,966 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,692 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,601 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,503 | 26.1 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,440 | 27.1 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,170 | 32.2 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,503 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 95 | #1,614 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 72 | #1,945 | 37.5 |
| 2009 | 102 | #1,585 | 51.4 |
| 2008 | 98 | #1,607 | 48.0 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,531 | 49.6 |
| 2006 | 114 | #1,396 | 55.5 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,367 | 55.1 |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,115 | 71.5 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,393 | 48.6 |
| 2002 | 126 | #1,133 | 64.9 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,233 | 55.6 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,343 | 48.4 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,320 | 47.4 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,251 | 50.7 |
| 1997 | 86 | #1,320 | 45.6 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,280 | 45.4 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,418 | 36.8 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,301 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 68 | #1,406 | 34.7 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,319 | 36.5 |
| 1991 | 56 | #1,546 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,708 | 22.9 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,436 | 29.0 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,598 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,351 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,602 | 22.3 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,532 | 23.3 |
| 1984 | 43 | #1,469 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 44 | #1,435 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 44 | #1,450 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,317 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,711 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,360 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 39 | #1,491 | 23.8 |
| 1977 | 45 | #1,361 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,552 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,518 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,807 | 16.5 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,674 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,478 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,616 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,559 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,254 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,501 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,196 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,535 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,701 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,146 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,817 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,435 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,338 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,838 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,262 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,918 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,748 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,712 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,687 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,289 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,972 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,965 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,491 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,887 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,992 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,341 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,529 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,841 | 5.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,720 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,771 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,328 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,796 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,737 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,389 | 10.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,921 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,628 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,508 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,948 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,656 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,691 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,620 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,928 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,752 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,201 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,636 Americans recorded as Javan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 27 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Javan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javan, and how old are they?
3,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,636 Americans ever recorded as Javan. The median Javan alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,876 people named Javan (119 women and girls, 2,757 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 77 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 883 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 490 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Javan born?
The states with the most babies named Javan are California, Texas and New York, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 205 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 183 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 182 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 154 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 81 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 65 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Javan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,837 babies since 1880, Javan is the fourth most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 497 babies (5.4%), the eighth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Javan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Javan and names like it
- Compare Javan and JavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJavan peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javan since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Javan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.