Javen
Javen was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,155 among boys’ names; 3,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,500 Americans named Javen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Javen?
#3,155 among boys’ names, 2025
Javen fell from #1,479 in 2015 to #3,155 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 59.0 to 22.2 per million.
205 babies in 2007, the peak
Javen peaked in 2007, when 205 babies were given it (199 boys, #986 among boys’ names). The 38 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,155 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,578 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,916 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,843 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,147 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,950 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,275 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 90 | #1,728 | 49.6 |
| 2017 | 72 | #1,985 | 38.9 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,019 | 37.4 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 113 | #1,479 | 59.0 |
| 2014 | 76 | #1,910 | 39.6 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,417 | 62.4 |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,373 | 64.8 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,225 | 75.3 |
| 2010 | 154 | #1,177 | 80.3 |
| 2009 | 177 | #1,061 | 89.2 |
| 2008 | 181 | #1,051 | 88.7 |
| 2007 | 199 | #986 | 95.9 |
| 2006 | 193 | #966 | 93.9 |
| 2005 | 163 | #1,032 | 81.6 |
| 2004 | 180 | #939 | 90.7 |
| 2003 | 177 | #928 | 89.6 |
| 2002 | 179 | #902 | 92.2 |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,109 | 65.9 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,144 | 61.6 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,312 | 47.9 |
| 1998 | 56 | #1,799 | 29.3 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,003 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,794 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,036 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,365 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,298 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,943 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,094 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,851 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,133 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,578 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,719 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,272 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,885 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,210 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,788 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,673 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,232 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,433 | 3.7 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,684 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,541 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,561 Americans recorded as Javen, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 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 Javen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javen, and how old are they?
3,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,561 Americans ever recorded as Javen. The median Javen alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,917 people named Javen (133 women and girls, 2,784 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 258 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 850 |
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 Javen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,181 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,954 | 1.0× |
Where Javen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Javen is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1952 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Javen 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, Javen is the fifth most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 497 babies (7.6%), again the fifth most given.
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 Javen
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 Javen and names like it
- Compare Javen and JavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaven peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javen since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Javen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.