Jovian as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Jovian

What is the meaning of the name Jovian ?

The baby name Jovian is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced JOH-vee-ən.

Jovian is English, Latin in Origin.

Jovian is an English form of Latin Iovianus, a Roman cognomen and personal name built from Iovis, the genitive of Iuppiter/Jupiter. The suffix -ianus formed adjectives and family-name derivatives, so the literal sense is of Jove or belonging to Jupiter, the Roman sky-god whose older name combines the Indo-European daylight deity root with pater, father.

The best-known bearer is Flavius Jovianus, emperor in 363–364 after Julian; unlike Julian, he was Christian and restored imperial favor to the Nicene church. Late antique inscriptions and ecclesiastical records also show Iovianus as a personal name, though it never became common in medieval western naming. French Jovien and Italian Gioviano reflect later Romance forms. In English, Jovian also functions as an adjective for Jupiter-related things, which gives the given name a mythological and astronomical association. U.S. birth data place it outside the top 1000, with small 21st-century usage.