Jhovany
Jhovany was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,266 among boys’ names; 484 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jhovany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jhovany?
#9,266 among boys’ names, 2025
Jhovany fell from #7,281 in 2015 to #9,266 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.7 per million.
29 babies in 2006, the peak
Jhovany peaked in 2006, when 29 boys were given it, #3,559 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,266 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,167 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,076 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,284 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,215 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,023 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,234 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,240 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,281 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,422 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 16 | #5,586 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,305 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,044 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,417 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,610 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,736 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,559 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,486 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,400 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,775 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,390 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,902 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,157 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,228 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,037 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,661 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,016 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,385 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,644 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,491 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,688 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,867 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,568 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,077 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jhovany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jhovany has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jhovany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jhovany, and how old are they?
An estimated 475 Americans named Jhovany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 470 people named Jhovany (8 women and girls, 462 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jhovany?
Jhovany is a less common spelling of Jovani: SSA has recorded 484 Jhovany and 7,490 Jovani since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 18,060 babies since 1880, Jhovany is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 285 babies (2.8%), again the fourth 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 Jhovany
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 Jhovany and names like it
- Compare Jhovany and JovaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJhovany peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jhovany since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jhovany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jhovany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.