Javion
Javion was given to 90 boys in 2025, #1,786 among boys’ names; 6,900 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,810 Americans named Javion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Javion mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Javion is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
African-American coinage from the second half of the 20th century. Compare Javon, Jayvion.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Javion?
#1,786 among boys’ names, 2025
Javion fell from #903 in 2015 to #1,786 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.05 per 1,000.
448 babies in 2008, the peak
Javion peaked in 2008, when 448 boys were given it, #575 among boys’ names. The 90 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #1,786 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,429 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,296 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,519 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,232 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 155 | #1,218 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 226 | #949 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 216 | #962 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 264 | #839 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 264 | #851 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 241 | #903 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 280 | #814 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 266 | #817 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 249 | #853 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 313 | #727 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 347 | #681 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 426 | #606 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 448 | #575 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 399 | #618 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 358 | #648 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 292 | #704 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 272 | #706 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 216 | #805 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 217 | #795 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 157 | #978 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 160 | #951 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,072 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,384 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,558 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,462 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,646 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,717 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,905 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Javion has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Javion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javion, and how old are they?
6,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,900 Americans ever recorded as Javion. The median Javion alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,789 people named Javion (55 women and girls, 4,734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,082 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 198 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,530 |
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 Javion born?
The states with the most babies named Javion are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,154 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,986 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,150 | 1.8× |
Where Javion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Javion is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1984 it was given 4.4 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 Javion 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 45,361 babies since 1880, Javion is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 525 babies (17%), again the second 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 Javion
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 Javion and names like it
- Compare Javion and JavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJavion peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javion since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Javion: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Javion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.