Lavanya
Lavanya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,813 among girls’ names; 261 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavanya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lavanya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lavanya is “a female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “beauty” (लावण्य).
From Sanskrit लावण्य (lāvaṇya, “beauty”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lavanya?
#9,813 among girls’ names, 2025
Lavanya rose from #10,545 in 2015 to #9,813 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.2 per million.
18 babies in 2007, the peak
Lavanya peaked in 2007, when 18 girls were given it, #7,273 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,813 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,799 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,872 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,461 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,052 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,659 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,716 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,545 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,046 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,534 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,349 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,018 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,114 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,272 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,474 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,273 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,696 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,834 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,230 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,067 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,635 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,329 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,634 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,972 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,515 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,708 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavanya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavanya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavanya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavanya, and how old are they?
An estimated 259 Americans named Lavanya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,442 people named Lavanya (2,427 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 228 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,293 babies since 1880, Lavanya is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 151 babies (6.6%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lavanya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lavanya and names like it
- Compare Lavanya and LavinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLavanya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavanya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Lavanya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lavanya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lavanya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.