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Javan

#3,987 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly Greece

Javan has been given to 3,636 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #3,987 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 142 recorded.

Babies named Javan, 2025

1 in 123,000

Javan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Javan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Greece

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Javan means

Javan may mean “Greece”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,593 boys were recorded with the name Javan between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 142 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,115 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,328 in 2020 to #3,987 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,503 in 2015 to #3,987 in 2025.

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Javan between 1968 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #7,446 in 1968.

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 Javan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,987
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Javan 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Javan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Javans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Javan was born before 2000 — so the typical Javan is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,462
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (1,094).

Is Javan 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
+261
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+341
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,484
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.0%
Peak was 2004 (142)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,115
2004

Spellings of Javan

Javan is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 32.8% against Javan's 0.11%.

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 Javan is used

Across 1910–2025, Javan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 109,956 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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. Javan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Javan around the world

Where Javan 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #2,374
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1997–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Javan

People whose public names include Javan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Javan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,987
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 341
Best rank ever
#1,115
2004
Peak year
2004
142 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,593
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,446
1968
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Javan

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

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Names with a curve like Javan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Javan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JoseluisDomonicDayneDevlinIainLeobardoLuizOsbaldoBradleeDajuanAlexandroBlayne

Sibling names for Javan

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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