Jovan
Jovan was given to 93 boys in 2025, #1,746 among boys’ names; 11,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,700 Americans named Jovan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jovan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jovan is “a transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јован (Jovan), equivalent to John”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jovan?
#1,746 among boys’ names, 2025
Jovan fell from #1,157 in 2015 to #1,746 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 84.5 to 54.4 per million.
329 babies in 1979, the peak
Jovan peaked in 1979, when 329 babies were given it (240 boys, #554 among boys’ names). The 93 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #1,746 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 95 | #1,745 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 94 | #1,752 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,554 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,518 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,404 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,526 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,619 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,318 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,293 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 162 | #1,157 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 170 | #1,129 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 173 | #1,080 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,138 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,075 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 190 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 225 | #922 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 237 | #887 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 239 | #868 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 239 | #844 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 209 | #875 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 247 | #751 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 230 | #766 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 222 | #778 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 270 | #671 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 260 | #682 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 265 | #654 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 270 | #648 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 228 | #699 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 192 | #766 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 231 | #694 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 228 | #690 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 256 | #644 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 257 | #641 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 260 | #629 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 265 | #620 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 240 | #644 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 230 | #623 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 201 | #645 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 227 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 199 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 192 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 198 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 228 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 226 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 218 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 240 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 188 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 175 | #644 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 128 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,715 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,063 Americans recorded as Jovan, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 93 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jovan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovan, and how old are they?
10,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 11,063 Americans ever recorded as Jovan. The median Jovan alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 9,013 people named Jovan (920 women and girls, 8,093 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 1,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,620 |
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 Jovan born?
The states with the most babies named Jovan are California, New York and Illinois, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,627 | #1,475 | 1.1× |
| New York | 980 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 909 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 783 | #1,443 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 713 | #1,727 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 394 | #949 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 348 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 334 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 275 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 210 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Jovan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovan is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1966 it was given 1.8 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 Jovan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,001 babies since 1880, Jovan is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 156 babies (60%), 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 Jovan
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 Jovan and names like it
- Compare Jovan and JovonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJovan peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovan since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Jovan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jovan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.