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Jovany

#2,734 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jovany has been given to 4,690 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #2,734 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 243 recorded.

Babies named Jovany, 2025

1 in 70,500

Jovany over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jovany: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jovany means

Jovany is a given name.

The naming story behind Jovany

Wikidata records Jovany as a given name. The entity identifier is Q137330128, 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, 4,679 boys were recorded with the name Jovany between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 243 in 2006; its best national rank was #818 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,672 in 2020 to #2,734 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,043 in 2015 to #2,734 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Jovany between 1989 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1994; its best national rank was #12,491 in 1994.

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 Jovany?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,734
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jovany 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jovany. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jovanys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jovany was born before 2004 — so the typical Jovany is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (2,022).

Is Jovany 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
+244
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−62
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−691
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.3%
Peak was 2006 (243)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#818
2003

Spellings of Jovany

Jovany is not the most common spelling — Johnny is, with 79.2% against Jovany's 1.2%.

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 Jovany is used

Across 1910–2025, Jovany was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 34,501 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Arizona1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 20,000
  4. 4Nevada1 in 20,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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

Jovany around the world

Where Jovany 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
    1978–2025
    #2,942
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jovany by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,734
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 62
Best rank ever
#818
2003
Peak year
2006
243 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,679
Count in 2025
47

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,491
1994
Peak year
1994
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jovany

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

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Names with a curve like Jovany

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

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Sibling names for Jovany

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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