Given name
Jovanka
Jovanka is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Jovanka isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jovanka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 0 boys · 55 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 410 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jovanka’s family of names
In Bosnian usage, Jovanka has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jeanne. In Macedonian usage, Jovanka is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Јованка.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jovanka
- Jovanka BrozFirst Lady of Yugoslavia (1924–2013)
- Jovanka HouskaEnglish chess playerborn 1980
- Jovanka NikolićSerbian writer, poet1952–2017
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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