Jovonna
Jovonna was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 422 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jovonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jovonna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,531, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1990, the peak
Jovonna peaked in 1990, when 23 girls were given it, #4,291 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,531 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,432 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,264 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,942 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,827 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,531 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,771 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,798 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,750 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,727 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | #9,138 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,032 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,833 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,802 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,843 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,388 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,291 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,394 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,935 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,734 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,058 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,721 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,678 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,974 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,051 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,702 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,497 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,555 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,040 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,059 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,770 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,974 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,827 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,782 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,557 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,110 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,155 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,275 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,521 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,300 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jovonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jovonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jovonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 405 Americans named Jovonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 31 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Jovonna (381 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,111 babies since 1880, Jovonna is the third most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 42 babies recorded by SSA was a Jovonna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jovonna
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 Jovonna and names like it
- Compare Jovonna and JovannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJovonna peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jovonna since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Jovonna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jovonna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.