Entry № 5019 · English origin

Jovie Jovie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOH-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Jovial / joyful (Zooey Deschanel's Jovie in Elf)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "jovial / joyful (zooey deschanel's jovie in elf)".

Jovie is a modern American name from the English jovial — merry, lighthearted — from the Latin Iovis (Jupiter), the Roman god whose disposition was traditionally cheerful. A top-500 US baby name since 2017.

Jovial / joyful.

The name in its native script.

Jovie
Transliteration
Jovie
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒoʊ.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jovie stands.

Jovie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jovies before her.

Real people

In fiction
Jovie
Zooey Deschanel in Elf.
2003

Names connected to Jovie.

The number behind Jovie.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jovie reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.