Jawan
Jawan was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,536 among boys’ names; 1,474 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Jawan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 24 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jawan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jawan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jawan is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage; variant forms Juwan, Juwann.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jawan?
#8,536 among boys’ names, 2025
Jawan rose from #11,286 in 2015 to #8,536 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.3 per million.
119 babies in 1997, the peak
Jawan peaked in 1997, when 119 boys were given it, #1,065 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,536 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,331 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,953 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,255 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,827 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,065 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,890 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,889 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,819 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,126 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,286 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,141 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,242 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,462 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,298 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,512 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,672 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,344 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,287 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,421 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,917 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,329 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,445 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,268 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 84 | #1,462 | 43.2 |
| 2000 | 66 | #1,714 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 58 | #1,755 | 30.2 |
| 1998 | 67 | #1,575 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,065 | 63.1 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,324 | 43.3 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,403 | 37.3 |
| 1994 | 64 | #1,479 | 33.1 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,622 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,785 | 23.5 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,028 | 18.3 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,457 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,939 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,641 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,910 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,125 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,765 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,749 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,981 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,186 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,373 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,639 | 20.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,447 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,293 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,831 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,651 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,772 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,995 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,862 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,179 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jawan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jawan has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jawan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jawan, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,474 Americans ever recorded as Jawan. The median Jawan alive today is 29 years old; half are between 24 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,161 people named Jawan (94 women and girls, 1,067 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 123 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 558 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 627 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 114 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,441 babies since 1880, Jawan is the most given (33% of them).
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 Jawan
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 Jawan and names like it
- Compare Jawan and JawaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJawan peaked in 1997.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jawan since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jawan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Jawan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jawan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.