Jayvon
#2,240 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jayvon has been given to 3,893 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,240 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 210 recorded.
Babies named Jayvon, 2025
1 in 52,600
Jayvon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jayvon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 52,600
- 63 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 27,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,240
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 36,476 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jayvon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jayvon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jayvons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jayvon was born before 2007 — so the typical Jayvon is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 42.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,893
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (1,656).
Is Jayvon 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
- +145
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +65
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −647
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.62×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.0%
- Peak was 2008 (210)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.0% average annual change
Spellings of Jayvon
Jayvon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 53.1% against Jayvon's 0.20%.
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 Jayvon is used
Across 2016–2025, Jayvon was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 44,263 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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.
Jayvon around the world
Where Jayvon 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 & Wales1997–2023#4,992in 2023
- Canada2009–2024#2,550in 2024
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.
Jayvon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jayvon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jayvon
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jayvon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jayvon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.