Javion
Masculine
Javion is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 6,889 boys against 11 girls since 1880.
Javion joins a Ja- front to the -vion ending, and it is one of the founding members of a naming family that has run for thirty years.
How old is the name Javion?
Javion first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Javion alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 6,800 people named Javion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Javion most popular?
Javion peaked in 2008, reaching #575 nationally. Today it ranks #1778, 1,203 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Javion
Our story of Javion is a story of a founding member. Davion and Javion arrived in the American registers in the late 1980s and established a shape — a two-consonant front, a -vion back, three syllables with the weight at the front. Xavion, Zavion, Travion and Kavion followed within a decade. None descends from another. Javion is among the first, and its history is thirty years long, entirely American, and completely documented.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No established etymology. The Ja- front and the -vion ending were both productive in American naming from the 1980s, giving Davion, Javion, Xavion and Zavion. Occasional attributions to Latin or French are not documented. It is a modern American coinage.
Pronouncing Javion
JAY-vee-un
Three syllables, stress on the first. Javion and Javian are said identically.
Nicknames for Javion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1984
- Most boys named
- 2008448 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #575reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −29.7%90 in 2025, from 128
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Javion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Javeon in English — spelling variant
- Davion in English — related form
- Javian in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Georgia.
Javions among us
people named Javion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 18,979 born in 2025 was named Javion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Douglass test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Javion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Douglass climbed just as high around 1942, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Douglass's path sketches the road Javion is walking now.
Javion sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Javion is headed
Javion should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Javion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Javion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jay is available as a short form with a substantial record.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It belongs to a large and well-documented American naming family.
- There is no inherited meaning, and honest sources say so.
- Davion and Xavion are close enough to cause constant confusion.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s and 2000s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Javions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,800 people named Javion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Javion in 2025?
- Javion ranks #1778 among US boy names in 2025, with 90 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Javion?
- About 1 in every 18,979 US boys born in 2025 was named Javion — 90 in all.
- Will my child share the name Javion with classmates?
- Javion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Javion
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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