Girls' name · since 1967
Jovanka
55 babies named Jovanka in U.S. Social Security records since 1967, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 55
- total births
- 1967–2005
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 51%
- born in that decade
Jovanka sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 55 recorded since 1967.
Jovanka has 55 recorded births among girls since 1967, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1967 to 2005.
- 55 total births
- 1967–2005 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 51% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jovanka's 55 recorded births place it above 53% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jovanka's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jovanka splits its recorded history at 1976: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1998 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1971 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jovanka popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1967–2005
- Peak year (1971)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 39 years of records
Jovanka by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Jovanka's strongest decade.
28 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Jovanka births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 6
1960s
6 births
- 1970s
1970s
28 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 28 births (51% of all-time use).
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1967–2005 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jovanka: Baby Name Since 1967 - 55 Births, Peak 1971." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jovanka. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jovanka draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.