Name Awesome

Javin

#3,801 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Javin has been given to 2,431 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #3,801 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Javin, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Javin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Javin means

Javin is a given name.

The naming story behind Javin

Wikidata records Javin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98065729, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,426 boys were recorded with the name Javin between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 136 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,226 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,526 in 2020 to #3,801 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,262 in 2015 to #3,801 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Javin between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #18,362 in 2006.

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 Javin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,801
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Javin 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Javin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Javins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Javin was born before 2005 — so the typical Javin is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,426
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (1,100).

Is Javin 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
+972
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−275
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,539
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.49×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.3%
Peak was 2006 (136)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,226
2004

Spellings of Javin

Javin is not the most common spelling — David is, with 45.9% against Javin's 0.03%.

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 Javin is used

Across 1910–2025, Javin was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 169,717 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Mexico1 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. Javin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Javin around the world

Where Javin 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
    2004–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Javin

People whose public names include Javin, 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.

Javin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,801
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 275
Best rank ever
#1,226
2004
Peak year
2006
136 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,426
Count in 2025
29

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#18,362
2006
Peak year
2006
5 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Javin

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

JavenJavanJavianJavisJavienJaveonJavariKavinTavinLevinJavionCavinJavarisJavonteJavonArvinJaviEdvinJevinNevinEvinNavinDalvinDarvin

Names with a curve like Javin

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

JashawnDonavinDaveonQuinlanTravionVarunBrandoJordinYovaniJacoreyTrentenTyren

Sibling names for Javin

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

Explore around Javin

Top names of 2006, Javin's peak yearThe 2000s in fullOther names that peaked in 2004Boys' names starting with J