Jovita
A Latin name meaning "belonging to Jove", the sky-god Jupiter. Only about 46 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one.
Jovita Pronunciation
What Jovita means
Where Jovita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jovita comes from Latin, a feminine form of Jovitus, and it goes back to Jove, an old name for Jupiter. The short meaning stays close to that root: belonging to Jove, należąca do Jowisza in Polish. The same god named a planet and a weekday, and this name shares the source.
Brescia keeps the oldest bearer. Saints Faustinus and Jovita were martyrs of that Italian city, remembered on 15 February. Their cult carried a pagan-sounding name into Christian calendars, where it held on beside plainer saints' names.
Spanish-speaking countries kept the form Jovita, given mostly to girls. Poland reshaped it into Jowita, the variant a teacher might read from a class register in September. The link to Jove survived every spelling, and Jowita still means należąca do Jowisza.
How many people are named Jovita
1 in 490083 women in Poland is named Jovita. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5624 among female names.
Jovita's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jovita as a middle name
Jovita is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3006th, between Josefin (7) and Joëlle (7).
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#3004 Jolene7
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#3005 Josefin7
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#3006 Jovita7
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#3007 Joëlle7
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#3008 Junona7