Jivan

#11,279 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jivan has been given to 198 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #11,279 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Jivan, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jivan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,279
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jivan 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jivan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jivans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jivan was born before 2008 — so the typical Jivan is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
198
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Jivan 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
−1,883
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,187
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+59
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 2000 (13)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,421
2000

Spellings of Jivan

Jivan is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 24.5% against Jivan'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.

Jivan around the world

Where Jivan 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
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    2003–2025
    #4,367
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jivan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,279
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,187
Best rank ever
#5,421
2000
Peak year
2000
13 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
198
Count in 2025
6

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Sibling names for Jivan

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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