Javan
Last seen for girls in 2000 at #13,154 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 142 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,593since 1916
Javan over time
Rank among boys' names. Javan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,949 | 27 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,200 | 25 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,566 | 32 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,651 | 30 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,259 | 35 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,943 | 40 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,672 | 46 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,587 | 48 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,486 | 50 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,429 | 52 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,165 | 61 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,488 | 50 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,611 | 95 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,940 | 72 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,581 | 102 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,603 | 98 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,527 | 103 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,391 | 114 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,362 | 110 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,114 | 142 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,391 | 96 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,130 | 126 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,231 | 108 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #1,341 | 95 |
| 1999 | — | #1,320 | 91 | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,246 | 97 |
| 1997 | — | #1,321 | 86 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,278 | 86 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,417 | 70 | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,303 | 80 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,407 | 68 |
| 1992 | — | #1,321 | 73 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,545 | 56 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,433 | 58 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,592 | 45 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,337 | 55 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,588 | 41 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,524 | 43 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,458 | 43 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,429 | 44 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,441 | 44 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | — | #1,695 | 34 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,352 | 47 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,487 | 39 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,356 | 45 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,541 | 35 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,505 | 35 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,790 | 26 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,653 | 28 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,217 | 15 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
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| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Javan! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Javan
- 251 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #3,949)
- 326 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #3,949)
- 1,463 spots since 2015 (#2,486 → #3,949)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2004 at #1,114 (142 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,979 boys born in 2004 were named Javan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.4% of all boys named Javan (1,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,723 |
| 1920s | 41 | #3,451 (1927) | #3,894 |
| 1930s | 41 | #2,328 (1931) | #3,117 |
| 1940s | 32 | #2,732 (1943) | #3,153 |
| 1950s | 58 | #2,818 (1958) | #3,388 |
| 1960s | 90 | #2,139 (1967) | #3,051 |
| 1970s | 298 | #1,352 (1979) | #1,817 |
| 1980s | 457 | #1,309 (1981) | #1,481 |
| 1990s | 754 | #1,246 (1998) | #1,386 |
| 2000s | 1,094 | #1,114 (2004) | #1,367 |
| 2010s | 549 | #1,611 (2011) | #2,458 |
| 2020s | 162 | #3,566 (2023) | #3,971 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Javan in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 21,920 of them was named Javan, which outranked 87.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,310Robbie87
- #1,310Santana87
- #1,310Semaj87
- #1,321Javan86
- #1,321Coltin86
- #1,321Dajon86
- #1,321Sabastian86
- #1,326Adriel85
- #1,326Brantley85
- #1,326Deric85
Tied with 4 names at #1,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.