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Jovan

Male#494 most common in Croatia1,145 people in Croatia
Meaning:
God is gracious
Origin:
Hebrew

About the name Jovan

Serbian form of John, from Hebrew Yohanan.

Popularity with newborns

Jovan has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.

People with this name in Croatia

1,145 people in Croatia are called Jovan, according to the 2021 census. That is #494 among all the names in Imenko.

Where the name is found

Jovan is recorded in 19 of Croatia's 21 counties.

Bjelovarsko-bilogorskaBrodsko-posavskaGrad ZagrebIstarskaKarlovačkaKoprivničko-križevačkaLičko-senjskaMeđimurskaOsječko-baranjskaPožeško-slavonskaPrimorsko-goranskaSisačko-moslavačkaSplitsko-dalmatinskaVaraždinskaVirovitičko-podravskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZadarskaZagrebačkaŠibensko-kninska

Characteristics

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Sources

Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.