Jovita
Jovita was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,490 among girls’ names; 3,297 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Jovita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 39 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jovita?
#12,490 among girls’ names, 2025
Jovita rose from #13,666 in 2015 to #12,490 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
62 babies in 1930, the peak
Jovita peaked in 1930, when 62 girls were given it, #932 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,490 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,588 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,675 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,592 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,225 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,079 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,191 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,666 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,447 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,417 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,366 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,785 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,916 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,530 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,253 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,887 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,322 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,592 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,727 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,025 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,457 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,801 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,033 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,185 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,726 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,188 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,443 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,829 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,305 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,756 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,071 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,463 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,167 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,517 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,872 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,488 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,887 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,242 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,408 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,508 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,240 | 27.0 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,555 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,286 | 26.2 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,250 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,042 | 30.7 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,568 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,035 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,363 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,243 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,333 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,309 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,217 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,472 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,385 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,819 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,323 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,085 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,085 | 17.4 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,077 | 17.1 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,284 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,756 | 21.3 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,962 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,899 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,421 | 27.8 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,558 | 23.5 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,670 | 20.4 |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,453 | 25.1 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,386 | 27.3 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,352 | 27.6 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,478 | 23.2 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,677 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,811 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,477 | 22.8 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,372 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,493 | 22.6 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,942 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,463 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,720 | 18.1 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,132 | 36.6 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,782 | 17.0 |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,109 | 37.2 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,388 | 26.2 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,169 | 35.6 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,193 | 34.4 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,170 | 35.7 |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,124 | 38.4 |
| 1935 | 50 | #978 | 47.7 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,114 | 39.3 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,113 | 39.7 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,184 | 34.7 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,154 | 36.6 |
| 1930 | 62 | #932 | 55.1 |
| 1929 | 57 | #953 | 51.0 |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,001 | 48.6 |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,014 | 47.8 |
| 1926 | 52 | #1,038 | 43.9 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,429 | 27.1 |
| 1924 | 54 | #1,067 | 43.2 |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,237 | 33.2 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,520 | 25.0 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,643 | 21.9 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,295 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,464 | 25.7 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,725 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,957 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,078 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,650 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,065 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,671 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,053 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,073 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,850 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,535 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,614 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,454 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,836 | 20.3 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,422 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,931 | 19.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jovita has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jovita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovita, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 3,297 Americans ever recorded as Jovita. The median Jovita alive today is 53 years old; half are between 39 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 6,712 people named Jovita (6,682 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 569 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 507 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 463 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 198 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 76 |
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 Jovita born?
The states with the most babies named Jovita are Texas, California and Illinois, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,183 | not ranked | 5.5× |
| California | 609 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jovita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovita is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 5.5 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 Jovita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jovita
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 Jovita and names like it
- Compare Jovita and VeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sJovita peaked in 1930.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovita since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Jovita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jovita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.