Jovita
Jovita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 932nd, in 1930.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 193062 births
- Best rank
- #932in 1930
- Since 1903
- 3,284people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,284 girls have been named Jovita in the United States since 1903, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 62 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 1955, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jovita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 45 | |
| 1910s | 150 | |
| 1920s | 442 | |
| 1930s | 424 | |
| 1940s | 324 | |
| 1950s | 438 | |
| 1960s | 305 | |
| 1970s | 373 | |
| 1980s | 344 | |
| 1990s | 220 | |
| 2000s | 128 | |
| 2010s | 62 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1930, its biggest year
Jovita was the 932nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Jovita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Veliapeak 1929
- Ernestinapeak 1947
- Carlinepeak 1949
- Florentinapeak 1928
- Nadinepeak 1958
- Hortenciapeak 1925
- Amparopeak 1927
- Josefinapeak 1930
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.