Jovita

Where Jovita comes from

Jovita hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Jovita Idár born
    American writer and activist
  2. 1903
    First appearance
    #1,792 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1930
    Peak, #926
    62 babies named Jovita — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,374.
  5. 1949
    Jovita Carranza born
    American businesswoman
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jovita Carranza · American businesswoman, born 1949
  • Jovita Idár · American writer and activist, 1885–1946
  • Jovita Neliupšienė · Lithuanian docent, born 1980
  • Jovita Fuentes · Filipina soprano singer, 1895–1978
  • Jovita Jutelytė · Lithuanian basketball player, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.