Java
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Java has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1969, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.
Babies named Java, 1980
1 in 574,000
Java over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Java over time
In 2000, Java went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Java?
Java had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1980
- 1 in 574,000
- 6 of 3,444,198 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1980
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 397,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Java sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 397,891 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Java. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Javas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Java was born before 1979 — so the typical Java is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 35.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Java 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1969 (7)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Java
Java is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 47.7% against Java's <0.01%.
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.
Java around the world
Where Java 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.
- France2021–2024#4,638in 2024
- South Australia2001–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Java by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Java
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Java
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.