Javonte
Javonte was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,271 among boys’ names; 3,958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,870 Americans named Javonte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Javonte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Javonte mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Javonte 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, Javion.
/d͡ʒəˈvɑːn.teɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Javonte?
#3,271 among boys’ names, 2025
Javonte fell from #2,661 in 2015 to #3,271 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 21.1 per million.
241 babies in 1992, the peak
Javonte peaked in 1992, when 241 babies were given it (229 boys, #681 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,271 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,767 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,749 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,477 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,603 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,378 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,071 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,816 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,569 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,661 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,557 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,871 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 71 | #1,995 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 77 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,579 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,550 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,485 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,374 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,302 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,211 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,282 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 144 | #1,077 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 129 | #1,118 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,075 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 156 | #967 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 138 | #1,013 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 185 | #812 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 176 | #824 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 190 | #772 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 196 | #765 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 208 | #725 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 229 | #678 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 229 | #681 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,333 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,571 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,897 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,608 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,212 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,705 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Javonte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Javonte has been given almost only to boys: 39 girls in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Javonte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Javonte, and how old are they?
3,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,958 Americans ever recorded as Javonte. The median Javonte alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,644 people named Javonte (47 women and girls, 2,597 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,620 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 633 |
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 Javonte born?
The states with the most babies named Javonte are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 300 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 253 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 244 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Louisiana | 206 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Michigan | 191 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 167 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 163 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 158 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 151 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 119 | not ranked | 2.2× |
Where Javonte is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Javonte is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1983 it was given 3.1 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 Javonte 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,434 babies since 1880, Javonte is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 73 babies (49%), 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 Javonte
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 Javonte and names like it
- Compare Javonte and JavontaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJavonte peaked in 1992.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Javonte since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Javonte: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Javonte.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Javonte alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.