Jovon
Jovon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199288 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 3,001people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,712 boys have been named Jovon in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 88 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 27%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 289 girls have also been given it, 9.6% of the total.
By decade
In 1992, its biggest year
Jovon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Jovon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dontaypeak 1990
- Jovanpeak 1998
- Rashardpeak 1994
- Tavarispeak 1995
- Joshuahpeak 1989
- Rashaunpeak 1998
- Rashonpeak 1994
- Jestinpeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.