girls:
12 births since 1970
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1972
#3198 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1970
#6287 (19th percentile)
The name Jawan is the #6,287 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,458 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 18.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,198 (30.2% percentile) for all time with 1,446 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1970.
Jawan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Jawan is available in 53 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 2 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 Jawan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1970 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (99.7% boys from 1972 to 2023).
For boys, Jawan reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 14.4% percentile (ranked #678) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 60 births per million (ranked 14.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jawan ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 9.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jawan reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #771) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jawan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jawan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.6% confident that Jawan is pronounced as juh-WAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jah-WAHN, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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