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Jawan

#8,536 in 2025Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Jawan has been given to 1,474 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #8,536 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Jawan, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jawan: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Jawan means

Jawan is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jawan is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Jawan is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,462 boys were recorded with the name Jawan between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,065 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,065 in 2020 to #8,536 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,286 in 2015 to #8,536 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Jawan between 1970 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1970; its best national rank was #6,605 in 1970.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jawan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,536
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jawan 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jawan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jawans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jawan was born before 1997 — so the typical Jawan is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,462
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (628).

Is Jawan 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
+1,795
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+529
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,750
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.6%
Peak was 1997 (119)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,065
1997

Spellings of Jawan

Jawan is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 43.0% against Jawan's 0.06%.

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 Jawan is used

Across 1910–2025, Jawan was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 238,798 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 33,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 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. Jawan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jawan around the world

Where Jawan 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
    2004–2015
    #6,535
    in 2015

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

Jawan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 529
Best rank ever
#1,065
1997
Peak year
1997
119 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,462
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,605
1970
Peak year
1970
7 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jawan

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

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Sibling names for Jawan

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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