Javar
Javar was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 714 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Javar?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,277, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1980, the peak
Javar peaked in 1980, when 31 boys were given it, #1,831 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #9,277 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,159 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,865 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,758 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,367 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,887 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,298 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,347 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,723 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,447 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #7,765 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,795 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,200 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,284 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,235 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,608 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,092 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,762 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,656 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,673 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,180 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,844 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,496 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,117 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,312 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,279 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,781 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,003 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,141 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,156 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,082 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,203 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,328 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,147 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,725 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,772 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,118 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,635 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,675 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,175 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,526 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,782 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,304 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,831 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,418 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,422 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,476 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,233 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Javar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Javar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javar, and how old are they?
An estimated 690 Americans named Javar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 567 people named Javar (6 women and girls, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 664 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 109,236 babies since 1880, Javar is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,252 babies recorded by SSA was a Javar (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Javar
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 Javar and names like it
- Compare Javar and JavierBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJavar peaked in 1980.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javar since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Javar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.