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Jovanny vs Jovon

American parents have registered 4,890 Jovannys since 1880, against 3,016 Jovons. Jovanny is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jovanny against Jovon, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jovanny Jovon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Jovanny for 35 years and Jovon for 21 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jovanny Jovon
Total US births 4,8903,016
Most in one year 253109
Babies in 2025 5715
Estimated living today 4,8002,900
Median age today 1931
Peak year 20061992
Best rank 806th boys1,187th boys
Rank in 2025 2,390th5,861st
First recorded 19791960
Girls / boys 16 / 4,874289 / 2,727

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jovons alive today are over 31; half the Jovannys are over 19. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jovanny and Jovon.