girl's name

Jovanna

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 7
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 3,242

Jovanna is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 21 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2001, when 204 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 157,878 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1935.

Jovanna over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1930s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Jovanna by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1930s 5
1940s 7
1950s 33
1960s 37
1970s 211
1980s 578
1990s 856
2000s 958
2010s 370
2020s (to 2025) 148

How popular is Jovanna?

In 2025, Jovanna was given to 21 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Jovanna is used

Canada #2,999 5 in 2002
England & Wales #5,630 4 in 2023
United States #5,902 21 in 2025
France #7,345 5 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Jovanna

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Jovanna also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Jovanna over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Jovanna

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Jovanna — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Jovanna

How popular is the name Jovanna?

In 2025, Jovanna was given to 21 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Jovanna a girl's or a boy's name?

Jovanna is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Jovanna most popular?

Jovanna peaked in 2001, when 204 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Jovanna a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Jovanna currently ranks #5,902 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.