# Jowan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jowan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Cornish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 157 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 157 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 421, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 13 | 4,663 |
| 1995 | 7 | 7,376 |
| 1996 | 10 | 5,761 |
| 1997 | 14 | 4,566 |
| 1998 | 9 | 6,559 |
| 1999 | 8 | 7,495 |
| 2000 | 8 | 7,807 |
| 2001 | 9 | 7,201 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,253 |
| 2007 | 5 | 13,345 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,535 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,526 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,194 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,229 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,494 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,251 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,367 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 23 | 1,144 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,186 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,022 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,132 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,253 |
| 2020 | 24 | 1,111 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.