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I'm sorry to say that I would have guessed the pronunciation to be jah-VAHN (mainly because I assumed it to be of arabic origin which turned out to be wrong ;) ). However, I don't think that I represent very well the people your son will meet everyday. I'm not American and I'm a namenerd.
Btw, I think you can almost pick a pronunciation. Since Javan is an ancient Hebrew name, probably neither JAY-vən nor jah-VAHN could be the correct pronunciation but I think JAY-vən is the one that makes more sense to an (American) English speaker.

This message was edited 4/20/2010, 10:01 AM