girls:
289 births since 1960
#5427 (5th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1972
#2427 (47th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1960
#4962 (36th percentile)
The name Jovon is the #4,962 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,988 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 35.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,427 (47.1% percentile) for all time with 2,699 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,427 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 289 births since 1960.
Jovon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Jovon is available in 54 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 23 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 Jovon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.3% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1960 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (90.8% boys from 1972 to 2023).
For boys, Jovon reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #607) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 43 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jovon ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 26.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jovon reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #753) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.1% 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 "Jovon".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Jovon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.1% confident that Jovon is pronounced as JOH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-VAHN, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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