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Jovanna

#5,811 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jovanna has been given to 3,203 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #5,811 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Jovanna, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jovanna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jovanna means

Jovanna is a given name.

The naming story behind Jovanna

Wikidata records Jovanna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98669069, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,203 girls were recorded with the name Jovanna between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 204 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,051 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,213 in 2020 to #5,811 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,539 in 2015 to #5,811 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 Jovanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,811
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jovanna 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jovanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jovannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jovanna was born before 1998 — so the typical Jovanna is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,191
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (958).

Is Jovanna 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
−113
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,598
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,272
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 2001 (204)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,051
2001

Spellings of Jovanna

Jovanna is not the most common spelling — Joanne is, with 29.9% against Jovanna's 0.45%.

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 Jovanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Jovanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 43,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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. Jovanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jovanna around the world

Where Jovanna 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
    2023–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    1979–2025
    #6,496
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1958–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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.

Jovanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,811
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,598
Best rank ever
#1,051
2001
Peak year
2001
204 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,203
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Jovanna

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

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Names with a curve like Jovanna

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

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Sibling names for Jovanna

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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