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Jovanka

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jovanka has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Jovanka, 2005

1 in 481,000

Jovanka over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jovanka: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jovanka means

Jovanka is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jovanka is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Jovanka is pronounced /jǒʋaːnka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Jovanka between 1967 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1971; its best national rank was #6,262 in 1971.

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 Jovanka?

Jovanka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 481,000
8 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
333,081 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jovanka 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 2005 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 333,081 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jovanka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jovankas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jovanka was born before 1974 — so the typical Jovanka is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
55
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Jovanka 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (8)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,262
1971

Spellings of Jovanka

Jovanka is not the most common spelling — Joanna is, with 58.7% against Jovanka'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.

Jovanka around the world

Where Jovanka 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
    1975–1975
    #2,690
    in 1975
  • South Australia
    1962–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jovanka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,262
1971
Peak year
1971
8 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jovanka

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

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Sibling names for Jovanka

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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