Jovanna
Jovanna was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,811 among girls’ names; 3,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,130 Americans named Jovanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jovanna?
#5,811 among girls’ names, 2025
Jovanna fell from #4,539 in 2015 to #5,811 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 13.1 per million.
204 babies in 2001, the peak
Jovanna peaked in 2001, when 204 girls were given it, #1,051 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,811 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,698 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,779 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,086 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,132 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,213 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,168 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,281 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,883 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,676 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,539 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,311 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,477 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,748 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,519 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,025 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,738 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,566 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,628 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,567 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,650 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,009 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,887 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,445 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 204 | #1,051 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,904 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,025 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,693 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,993 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,069 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,084 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 103 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 136 | #1,258 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,805 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,849 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,719 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,790 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,690 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,033 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,115 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,782 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,975 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,264 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,027 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,198 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,025 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,577 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,437 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,842 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,661 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,725 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,337 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,545 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,536 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jovanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jovanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovanna, and how old are they?
3,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,203 Americans ever recorded as Jovanna. The median Jovanna alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,933 people named Jovanna (2,908 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,006 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 266 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 373 |
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 Jovanna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,541 | 1.7× |
Where Jovanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovanna is most over-represented in California: since 1935 it was given 1.9 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 girls’ 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 Jovanna 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 6,111 babies since 1880, Jovanna is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 42 babies (50%), 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 Jovanna
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 Jovanna and names like it
- Compare Jovanna and JovanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJovanna peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jovanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jovanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.