Jawana

girls:

378 births since 1953

#5338 (7th percentile)

overall:

378 births since 1953

#7361 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Jawana is the #7,361 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 378 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 4.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,338 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 378 births since 1953.

Jawana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for girls in 1953). Birth data for Jawana is available in 36 out of the 45 years between 1953 and 1997. 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.

For girls, Jawana reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #771) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jawana".

1953 1997 19531997

Key Statistics

Total Births
378
Peak Births
19
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1953
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#771
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Jawana

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jawana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.9% confident that Jawana is pronounced as juh-WAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jah-WAH-nuh, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.

juh-WAH-nuh (3 syllables)
62.9% confidence
JH AH0 W AA1 N AH0
jah-WAH-nuh (3 syllables)
22.9% confidence
JH AA0 W AA1 N AH0
juh-WA-nuh (3 syllables)
14.3% confidence
JH AH0 W AE1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AH0 W AA1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

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