MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jover mean?
The Gran Diccionari records jover as pareller, a worker handling a team, and derives it from jova. The linguistic essay by Grimaltos and Vendrell explains the older farming sense as the person guiding yoked oxen in ploughing.
This is an explicitly Catalan word reading alongside the separately attested personal name. The word’s use in surnames does not establish a surname-to-given-name transfer for this bearer.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Jover in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
JOVERCSV record 8,119 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Jover in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Jover
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Joven·As a Spanish word: young
- Joar♂Horse + army or warrior, from Old Norse Jóarr
- Joe♂Short form of Joseph
- Joel♂Yahweh is God
- Joen·Older Scandinavian form of Jon or Johan
- Joey♂Affectionate form of Joe or Joseph
- Jomar♂Familiar blend of José María
- Jonel♂Romanian Ionel account; Philippine route not established
What rhymes with Jover?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Jover further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana — jover (opens in a new tab)
Exact Catalan word, pareller, from jova; additional historical legal sense kept separate.
- Grimaltos and Vendrell — Diccionari particular: Jover (opens in a new tab)
Explains the ox-team ploughman sense of Catalan jover.