girls:
5 births since 1997
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
505 births since 1978
#4081 (11th percentile)
overall:
510 births since 1978
#7229 (7th percentile)
The name Jovian is the #7,229 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 510 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 6.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,081 (11.0% percentile) for all time with 505 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1997.
Jovian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Jovian is available in 34 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (34 years for boys and 1 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 Jovian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jovian reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #886) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jovian ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 69.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jovian reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #863) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% 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 "Jovian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jovian is pronounced as JOH-vee-uhn, which has 3 syllables.
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