Jovany
Jovany was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,734 among boys’ names; 4,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,590 Americans named Jovany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jovany?
#2,734 among boys’ names, 2025
Jovany fell from #2,043 in 2015 to #2,734 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.5 to 27.5 per million.
243 babies in 2006, the peak
Jovany peaked in 2006, when 243 boys were given it, #838 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,734 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,978 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,632 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,302 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,566 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 47 | #2,672 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 52 | #2,535 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,527 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,547 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,316 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,043 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 83 | #1,803 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 95 | #1,617 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,351 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,099 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 191 | #1,017 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 195 | #1,010 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 220 | #924 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 217 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 243 | #838 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 226 | #828 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 202 | #867 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 214 | #818 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 166 | #963 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 189 | #849 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 150 | #987 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 150 | #960 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 144 | #963 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,056 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,001 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,015 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,195 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,170 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 109 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,200 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 58 | #1,440 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,627 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,042 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,379 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,311 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,453 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jovany has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 48 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jovany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovany, and how old are they?
4,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,690 Americans ever recorded as Jovany. The median Jovany alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,142 people named Jovany (73 women and girls, 4,069 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,361 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 962 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 725 |
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 Jovany born?
The states with the most babies named Jovany are California, Illinois and Arizona, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,091 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,200 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 6 | #889 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 6 | #946 | 0.2× |
Where Jovany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovany is most over-represented in California: since 1978 it was given 2.2 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 Jovany 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 25,391 babies since 1880, Jovany is the fourth most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 476 babies (9.9%), again the fourth 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 Jovany
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 Jovany and names like it
- Compare Jovany and JovaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJovany peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovany since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jovany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jovany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.