Jovonne
Jovonne was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 205 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 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 Jovonne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jovonne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,785, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1979, the peak
Jovonne peaked in 1979, when 22 babies were given it (16 girls, #4,495 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,527 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #10,623 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,002 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,248 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,785 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,533 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,069 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,067 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,439 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,170 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #13,939 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,700 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,214 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,381 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,660 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,039 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,982 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,796 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,703 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,680 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,495 | 6 | #5,703 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,705 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,280 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,735 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,662 | 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 Jovonne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 205 Americans recorded as Jovonne, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jovonne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jovonne, and how old are they?
An estimated 198 Americans named Jovonne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 34 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Jovonne (187 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 199 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,885 babies since 1880, Jovonne is the third most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 21 babies recorded by SSA was a Jovonne (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 Jovonne
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 Jovonne and names like it
- Compare Jovonne and JovannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJovonne peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Jovonne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jovonne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.