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Hovhannes

#11,168 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Iohannes

Hovhannes has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #11,168 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Hovhannes, 2025

1 in 553,000

Hovhannes over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hovhannes: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Iohannes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hovhannes means

Hovhannes is a form of Iohannes.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hovhannes is used in Armenian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /hɔv.hɑn.ˈnɛs/ for Hovhannes.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iohannes.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Hovhannes between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,949 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hovhannes?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,168
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hovhannes sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hovhannes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hovhanness were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hovhannes was born before 2017 — so the typical Hovhannes is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
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Choose a decade

2020s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Hovhannes rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,202
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,949
1992

Spellings of Hovhannes

Hovhannes is not the most common spelling — Johannes is, with 96.7% against Hovhannes's 3.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hovhannes is used

Across 1910–2025, Hovhannes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 396,198 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hovhannes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hovhannes around the world

Where Hovhannes ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2009–2020
    #4,936
    in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hovhannes by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,949
1992
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Hovhannes

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hovhannes

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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