Javon
Feminine
Javon is given to both — 760 girls and 17,646 boys since 1880. See Javon as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Javon is recorded for boys and girls alike, and it sits one letter from a name in the table of nations at the front of Genesis. That name is not really a person: it is what the ancient near east called the Greeks.
How old is the name Javon?
Javon first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Javon alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 700 people named Javon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Javon most popular?
Javon peaked in 1981, reaching #2488 nationally. See the whole 1981 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Javon
The tenth chapter of Genesis lists the descendants of Noah and it is really a map: each name is a people or a place, arranged by family. Javan is the Greeks, and the word is the same as Ionia, the Greek-settled coast of Asia Minor, which is what the whole Greek world was called by everybody to the east of it. The same word reached Persian as Yauna, Sanskrit as Yavana and Arabic as Yunan, which is still the Arabic name for Greece. So Greece is called after one region of it in half the languages of Asia, because that was the part its neighbors met first.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Javan in Genesis stands for a people rather than an individual. Whether an American Javon comes from that name or was built from a free prefix and a free ending is not recorded, and the record holds the spelling for both sexes.
Pronouncing Javon
juh-VON
Two syllables with the weight on the second. JAY-von, with the stress in front, is also heard.
Nicknames for Javon
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
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 198138 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2488reached in 1981
- Change vs 2011
- 0.0%5 in 2017, from 5
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.
Javons among us
people named Javon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Javon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Jay comes off the front as a short form and works for either sex.
- It is short on paper and quick to write.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- Two stress patterns are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- Javan, Javion and Jevon are all in the record and will be confused with it.
- No origin is documented for this spelling, so the meaning question has two candidates and no answer.
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- How many Javons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Javon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Javon in 2025?
- Javon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Javon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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