Jovon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jovon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 158K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 107K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 415K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
2,111 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jovon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,111 | 1 in 158K | 1.8K | Jovon | 236 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 899K | — | Jovon | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Jovon | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Jovon | 2 |
| CO Colombia | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 897K | — | Jovon | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 763K | — | Jovon | 12 |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | Jovon | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Jovon | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 833K | — | Jovon | 5 |
2,111 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ashley Lelieb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player
- Clay Tuckerb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Jereme Perryb. 1981USnot in their usual nameplayer of American football
- Jovon Johnsonb. 1983USAmerican football player
- Jovon Toppinb. 1989TTTrinidadian relay sprinter
- Adonis Filerb. 1993USnot in their usual nameRwandan basketball player (born 1993)
- Megan Thee Stallionb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper, singer and songwriter
- Jovon PriceUSbasketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #7,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 279 | #7,279 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 88 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 79 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 76 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 76 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 75 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 72 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jovon mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jovon?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒvən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jovon a male or female name?
- Jovon is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Jovon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Jovon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jovon.
- Where is Jovon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jovon is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 107 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jovon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,111 people named Jovon in 2020, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jovonThe 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, “Jovon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.