Javán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Javán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Biblical name, borne by a son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2). It seems to be derived from a Hebrew word meaning ‘wine’. Use as a modern given name has prob- ably been influenced by names such as pJeavon.
- GYGuyana1 in 20K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 43K
- USUnited States1 in 116K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Javan in US United States, IN India, NG Nigeria and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Biblical name, borne by a son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2). It seems to be derived from a Hebrew word meaning ‘wine’. Use as a modern given name has prob- ably been influenced by names such as pJeavon.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Javán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Javan | 18 |
| IN India | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 323K | 15 | Javan | 20 |
| US United States | 2,876 | 1 in 116K | 2.8K | Javan | 262 |
| BR Brazil | 751 | 1 in 282K | 809 | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 373K | — | Javan | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Javan | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 38 | 1 in 20K | 38 | — | 4 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 6 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Javán mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name, borne by a son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2). It seems to be derived from a Hebrew word meaning ‘wine’. Use as a modern given name has prob- ably been influenced by names such as pJeavon. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Javán a male or female name?
- Javán is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Javán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Javán in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled javan.
- How common is the name Javán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,876 people named Javán in 2020, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jav%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Javán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.