Javon
Javon was given to 169 boys in 2025, #1,198 among boys’ names; 18,406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,900 Americans named Javon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Javon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Javon 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 Javion, Jayvion.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Javon?
#1,198 among boys’ names, 2025
Javon fell from #853 in 2015 to #1,198 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.14 to 0.10 per 1,000.
755 babies in 2001, the peak
Javon peaked in 2001, when 755 babies were given it (742 boys, #357 among boys’ names). The 169 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,198 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 169 | #1,204 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 185 | #1,137 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 174 | #1,173 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,120 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,120 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,145 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 195 | #1,042 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 214 | #969 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 220 | #949 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 263 | #853 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 301 | #775 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 309 | #747 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 320 | #727 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 412 | #600 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 445 | #573 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 555 | #490 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 629 | #446 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 715 | #407 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 714 | #410 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 703 | #403 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 647 | #403 | 0.33 |
| 2003 | 562 | #447 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 627 | #402 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 742 | #357 | 0.38 |
| 2000 | 705 | #371 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 571 | #412 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 552 | #420 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 592 | #396 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 542 | #419 | 0.29 |
| 1995 | 544 | #417 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 500 | #450 | 0.26 |
| 1993 | 497 | #442 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 407 | #497 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 416 | #485 | 0.21 |
| 1990 | 343 | #534 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 280 | #583 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 224 | #638 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 190 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 177 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 153 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 117 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 130 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 117 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 104 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 102 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 93 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 104 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 108 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 81 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 41 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,900 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,994 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,887 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,357 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,384 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,308 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 18,406 Americans recorded as Javon, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 169 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 Javon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javon, and how old are they?
17,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 18,406 Americans ever recorded as Javon. The median Javon alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 13,502 people named Javon (611 women and girls, 12,891 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,064 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 772 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,970 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,710 |
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 Javon born?
The states with the most babies named Javon are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,321 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 14 | #687 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,092 | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 12 | #728 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 10 | #467 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 9 | #799 | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 9 | #690 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 7 | #749 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,194 | 1.1× |
| California | 6 | #2,318 | 0.3× |
Where Javon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Javon is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1960 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 Javon 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, Javon is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 169 of their 525 babies (32%), again the 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 Javon
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 Javon and names like it
- Compare Javon and JavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJavon peaked in 2001.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javon since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Javon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Javon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.