Jovani
Jovani was given to 168 boys in 2025, #1,208 among boys’ names; 7,490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,360 Americans named Jovani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jovani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jovani is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jovani?
#1,208 among boys’ names, 2025
Jovani fell from #961 in 2015 to #1,208 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.10 per 1,000.
346 babies in 2009, the peak
Jovani peaked in 2009, when 346 boys were given it, #695 among boys’ names. The 168 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,208 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 177 | #1,173 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,297 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 174 | #1,174 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 179 | #1,137 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,041 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,146 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,213 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 171 | #1,124 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 192 | #1,036 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #961 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 231 | #925 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 222 | #922 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 275 | #808 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 292 | #771 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 293 | #765 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 346 | #695 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 278 | #789 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 288 | #766 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 319 | #695 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 277 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 242 | #757 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 224 | #785 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 216 | #798 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 236 | #739 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 180 | #875 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 155 | #938 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 144 | #962 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 139 | #955 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 120 | #1,024 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,073 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,096 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 118 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,152 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,439 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 58 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,956 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,548 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,085 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,982 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,597 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,490 Americans recorded as Jovani, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 168 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 Jovani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovani, and how old are they?
7,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,490 Americans ever recorded as Jovani. The median Jovani alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 5,955 people named Jovani (169 women and girls, 5,786 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,388 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,410 |
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 Jovani born?
The states with the most babies named Jovani are Texas, California and Florida, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #835 | 1.3× |
| California | 19 | #1,096 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 17 | #866 | 1.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,353 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #585 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #961 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,174 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,385 | 1.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #977 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,110 | 0.8× |
Where Jovani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovani is most over-represented in Florida: since 1974 it was given 1.6 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 Jovani 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 25,591 babies since 1880, Jovani is the most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 168 of their 483 babies (35%), the second most given that year.
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 Jovani
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 Jovani and names like it
- Compare Jovani and JovanniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJovani peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovani since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jovani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jovani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.