Jovan
Jovan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. Its best rank was 554th, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 940.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1998270 births
- Best rank
- #554in 1979
- Since 1966
- 10,969people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,890 boys have been named Jovan in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 270 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,079 girls have also been given it, 9.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Jovan was the 648th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Jovan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jovonpeak 1992
- Dontaypeak 1990
- Rashaunpeak 1998
- Damarpeak 1990
- Tienpeak 1992
- Johnmichaelpeak 1995
- Jamilpeak 1991
- Montrellpeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.