Jawana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jawana

The Social Security Administration has registered 378 babies named Jawana between 1953 and 1997, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jawana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jawana performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jawana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jawana in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jawana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 378 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.