Jovon
Jovon was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,988 among boys’ names; 3,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,900 Americans named Jovon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jovon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jovon is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jovon?
#5,988 among boys’ names, 2025
Jovon fell from #4,800 in 2015 to #5,988 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 8.8 per million.
109 babies in 1981, the peak
Jovon peaked in 1981, when 109 babies were given it (80 boys, #1,017 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,988 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,030 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,800 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,527 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,431 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,208 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,546 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,830 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,280 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,329 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,800 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,415 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,920 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,536 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,248 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,660 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,213 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,171 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 79 | #1,838 | 38.1 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,956 | 33.6 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,251 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,001 | 30.2 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,327 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,055 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,635 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 80 | #1,507 | 40.7 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,662 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 70 | #1,538 | 36.6 |
| 1997 | 68 | #1,525 | 36.1 |
| 1996 | 65 | #1,539 | 34.3 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,419 | 36.8 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,304 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,267 | 40.8 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,186 | 44.1 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,280 | 37.6 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,274 | 36.5 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,232 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,251 | 35.0 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,180 | 35.9 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,106 | 39.1 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,270 | 30.8 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,206 | 32.1 |
| 1983 | 48 | #1,353 | 26.8 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,128 | 36.4 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,017 | 44.7 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,168 | 34.2 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,248 | 31.9 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,218 | 32.9 |
| 1977 | 43 | #1,398 | 26.2 |
| 1976 | 43 | #1,365 | 27.4 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,584 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,008 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,789 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,349 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,016 Americans recorded as Jovon, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jovon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovon, and how old are they?
2,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,016 Americans ever recorded as Jovon. The median Jovon alive today is 32 years old; half are between 20 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,111 people named Jovon (279 women and girls, 1,832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 355 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 977 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
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 Jovon born?
The states with the most babies named Jovon are California, Illinois and New York, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 242 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 221 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 160 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 112 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 112 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 84 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jovon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jovon is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1960 it was given 1.6 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 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 Jovon 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 16,001 babies since 1880, Jovon is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 156 babies (9.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Jovon
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 Jovon and names like it
- Compare Jovon and JovanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJovon peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovon since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Jovon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jovon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jovon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.