The name Jovie was popularized in the Anglosphere for girls by a character played by American actress Zooey Deschanel in the 2003 American Christmas comedy film Elf.
[1] The name is likely derived from an English short form of the vocabulary word “jovial”, an English word which comes from the Medieval Latin word joviālis, meaning “of Jupiter” and which originally referred to beneficent astrological associations with the planet Jupiter.
Twelve American girls were named Jovie in 2004, the year after Elf was released.
There were 507 American girls given the name in 2023, the year it ranked 588th on the popularity chart.
The singer's stage and band name is derived from a phonetic respelling of his Italian surname, Bongiovi, which is a combination of bon, meaning “good” and Giovanni, the Italian version of the name John.