girls:
306 births since 1963
#5410 (5th percentile)
overall:
306 births since 1963
#7433 (4th percentile)
The name Jawanna is the #7,433 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 306 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,410 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1963.
Jawanna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (first recorded for girls in 1963). Birth data for Jawanna is available in 29 out of the 37 years between 1963 and 1999. 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, Jawanna reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #804) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jawanna".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jawanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.8% confident that Jawanna is pronounced as juh-WAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-WA-nuh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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