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Jovana

#11,370 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of John

Jovana has been given to 2,048 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #11,370 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Jovana, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jovana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jovana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jovana means

Jovana is a feminine form of John.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jovana is used in Serbian and Macedonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈjɔ.va.na/ for Jovana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jovana → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,048 girls were recorded with the name Jovana between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,132 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,552 in 2020 to #11,370 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,336 in 2015 to #11,370 in 2025.

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 Jovana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,370
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jovana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jovana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jovanas were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,048
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (720).

Is Jovana 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
−5,101
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,818
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,034
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 2001 (185)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,132
2001

Spellings of Jovana

Jovana is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 49.0% against Jovana's 0.21%.

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 Jovana is used

Across 1910–2025, Jovana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 69,891 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jovana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jovana around the world

Where Jovana 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
    #3,519
    in 2021
  • France
    1983–2023
    #7,463
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Jovana

People whose public names include Jovana, 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.

Jovana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,370
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,818
Best rank ever
#1,132
2001
Peak year
2001
185 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,048
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jovana

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

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Names with a curve like Jovana

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

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Sibling names for Jovana

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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