girls:
1.1k births since 1974
#4637 (19th percentile)
boys:
9.8k births since 1966
#1180 (74th percentile)
overall:
10.9k births since 1966
#2527 (67th percentile)
The name Jovan is the #2,527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,875 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 67.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,180 (74.3% percentile) for all time with 9,796 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #4,637 (18.9% percentile) for all time with 1,079 births since 1974.
Jovan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Jovan is available in 55 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 28 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 Jovan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jovan reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 31.8% percentile (ranked #525) with 123 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 134 births per million (ranked 31.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jovan ranks #822 for boys (9.8% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 38.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jovan reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #692) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 52 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jovan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jovan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.8% confident that Jovan is pronounced as JOH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-VAHN, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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