girls:
760 births since 1961
#4956 (13th percentile)
boys:
17.3k births since 1960
#870 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.1k births since 1960
#1918 (75th percentile)
The name Javon is the #1,918 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,062 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 75.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #870 (81.0% percentile) for all time with 17,302 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #4,956 (13.3% percentile) for all time with 760 births since 1961.
Javon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Javon is available in 59 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (57 years for boys and 42 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 Javon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Javon reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 59.0% percentile (ranked #339) with 359 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 359 births per million (ranked 59.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Javon ranks #732 for boys (19.7% percentile) with 100 births per million, which is 28.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Javon reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #744) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Javon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Javon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Javon is pronounced as juh-VAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-VAWN, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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