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Jovita

#12,490 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jovita has been given to 3,297 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #12,490 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1930, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Jovita, 2025

1 in 474,000

Jovita over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jovita: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jovita means

Jovita is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jovita is used in Lithuanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,292 girls were recorded with the name Jovita between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1930; its best national rank was #932 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,225 in 2020 to #12,490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,666 in 2015 to #12,490 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Jovita between 1941 and 1941. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1941; its best national rank was #3,770 in 1941.

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 Jovita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,490
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jovita 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jovita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jovitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jovita was born before 1956 — so the typical Jovita is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,907
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.4% of all recorded uses (442).

Is Jovita 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
−902
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,735
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,176
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.3%
Peak was 1930 (62)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#932
1930

Spellings of Jovita

Jovita is not the most common spelling — Bonita is, with 38.4% against Jovita's 3.3%.

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 Jovita is used

Across 1910–2025, Jovita was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 25,331 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Tennessee1 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. Jovita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jovita around the world

Where Jovita 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
    2001–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–1993
    #4,091
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #458
    in 1987

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

Notable people named Jovita

People whose public names include Jovita, 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.

Jovita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jovita. Linked forms have their own page here.

JowitaGiovita

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jovita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,735
Best rank ever
#932
1930
Peak year
1930
62 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,292
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,770
1941
Peak year
1941
5 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
1941
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jovita

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

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Names with a curve like Jovita

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

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Sibling names for Jovita

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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