girls:
43 births since 1968
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.5k births since 1916
#2095 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1916
#4573 (41st percentile)
The name Javan is the #4,573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,582 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 40.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,095 (54.3% percentile) for all time with 3,539 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1968.
Javan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Javan is available in 94 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Javan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Javan reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 16.2% percentile (ranked #710) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 67 births per million (ranked 16.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Javan ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 26.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Javan reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #871) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Javan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Javan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Javan is pronounced as JAY-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-VAHN, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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