Jovan — #1754 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jovan

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,890 babies named Jovan between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jovan currently holds the #1754 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 270 babies received it in a single year. Jovan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,079 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jovan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,452 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jovan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,508 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jovan in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jovan 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 9,890 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.