Jovi
Jovi is given to both girls and boys: 241 girls and 53 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,036 among girls’ names and #2,526 among boys’, #1,716 among all names counting both); 2,977 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,950 Americans named Jovi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jovi?
#1,036 among girls’ names, 2025
Jovi rose from #2,488 in 2015 to #1,036 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.15 per 1,000.
300 babies in 2022, the peak
Jovi peaked in 2022, when 300 babies were given it (202 girls, #1,193 among girls’ names). The 294 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 98% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 241 | #1,036 | 53 | #2,526 |
| 2024 | 236 | #1,057 | 53 | #2,542 |
| 2023 | 207 | #1,164 | 71 | #2,083 |
| 2022 | 202 | #1,193 | 98 | #1,727 |
| 2021 | 172 | #1,315 | 69 | #2,098 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,567 | 23 | #4,338 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,663 | 22 | #4,545 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,821 | 20 | #4,830 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,331 | 20 | #4,835 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,236 | 16 | #5,663 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,488 | 16 | #5,618 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,948 | 14 | #6,136 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,880 | 14 | #6,060 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,692 | 10 | #7,822 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,623 | 19 | #4,897 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,026 | 15 | #5,878 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,953 | 13 | #6,611 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,548 | 15 | #5,913 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,085 | 13 | #6,438 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,402 | 11 | #7,163 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,977 | 9 | #7,966 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,537 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,061 | 7 | #9,136 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,668 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 10 | #6,690 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,220 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,922 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,532 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,662 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,068 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,515 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,247 | 7 | #7,031 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,130 | 17 | #3,532 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,938 | 13 | #4,275 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,456 | 13 | #4,150 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,840 | 14 | #3,606 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,635 | 21 | #2,595 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,908 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jovi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,977 Americans recorded as Jovi, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jovi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovi, and how old are they?
2,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,977 Americans ever recorded as Jovi. The median Jovi alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,521 people named Jovi (1,135 women and girls, 386 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 149 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 536 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,260 |
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 Jovi born?
The states with the most babies named Jovi are Texas, California and Utah, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 26 | #1,243 | 0.7× |
| California | 17 | #1,793 | 0.4× |
| Utah | 14 | #321 | 3.6× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #547 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #357 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 10 | #920 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 10 | #880 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,485 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 9 | #686 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,013 | 0.4× |
Where Jovi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovi is most over-represented in Utah: since 1976 it was given 3.6 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 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 Jovi 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,288 babies since 1880, Jovi is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 294 of their 904 babies (33%), again the second 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 Jovi
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 Jovi and names like it
- Compare Jovi and JovieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJovi peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovi since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Jovi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jovi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.