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Javon

Javon reached its high-water mark in 2001 at number 357, and has been recorded 18,406 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,196th. About 18,000 Javons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Javon boys named Javon

By the numbers

Total US births
18,406
Estimated living today
18,000
Median age today
23
Peak year
2001
Best rank
357th
Rank in 2025
1,196th
First recorded
1960
Girls / boys
760 / 17,646

How old the living Javons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 18,406 babies given the name since 1960, about 18,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,100 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

African-American coinage from the second half of the 20th century. Compare Javion, Jayvion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Javons

People named Javon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Javon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Javon is most concentrated in Florida (3.0×), Virginia (2.1×), Delaware (2.1×), South Carolina (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2001

The most popular boys’ names the year Javon peaked:

All the names of 2001

Javon elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Javon 93 1,744th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.