Jovan
Jovan is a boy's name that peaked in 1998, when it was the 648th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,743rd. About 11,000 Jovans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jovan boys named Jovan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,063
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 648th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,743rd
- First recorded
- 1966
- Girls / boys
- 1,079 / 9,984
How old the living Jovans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,063 babies given the name since 1966, about 11,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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.
Notable Jovans
- Jovan Dučić (1871–1943)Bosnian Serb writer and diplomat
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904)Serbian poet, physician
- Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927)Serbian scientist
- Jovan Vladimir (990–1016)Serbian prince of Duklja, Serbian Orthodox Christian saint
- Jovan Mijatović (born 2005)Serbian association football player
- Jovan Ristić (1831–1899)Prime Minister of Serbia
- Jovan Adepo (born 1988)British actor
- Jovan Divjak (1937–2021)Bosnian general
People named Jovan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jovan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jovan is most concentrated in Florida (2.5×), Illinois (2.2×), California (2.0×), Arizona (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Jovan peaked:
Jovan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jovan | 1,094 | 446th |
| France boys | Jovan | 505 | 1,045th |
| Switzerland boys | Jovan | 293 | 466th |
| Poland boys | Jovan | 8 birth registrations | 397th |
| Scotland boys | Jovan | 4 | 590th |
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.
Jovan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jovan | 246 | 0.020% | 248th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jovan | 34 | 0.008% | 442nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jovan | 13 | 0.020% | 115th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jovan is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.03% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Jovan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 11 | 404th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jovan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jovan | 15 | 18 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jovan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.