Lavar
Lavar was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,264 among boys’ names; 2,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Lavar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 26 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavar?
#10,264 among boys’ names, 2025
Lavar fell from #7,342 in 2015 to #10,264 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.1 per million.
279 babies in 1977, the peak
Lavar peaked in 1977, when 279 boys were given it, #486 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,518 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,558 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,842 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,388 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,932 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,901 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,680 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,342 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,611 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #10,287 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,956 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,921 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,917 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,225 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,693 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,483 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,048 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,793 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,027 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,892 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,906 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,979 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,307 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,973 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,534 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,939 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,404 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,238 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 49 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 40 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 111 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 147 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 174 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 279 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,995 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,351 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,152 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,551 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,055 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,126 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,980 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,690 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,661 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,915 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,366 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,958 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,408 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,708 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,132 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavar has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lavar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavar, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,086 Americans ever recorded as Lavar. The median Lavar alive today is 42 years old; half are between 26 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,361 people named Lavar (16 women and girls, 1,345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,833 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 676 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 574 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 426 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 113 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lavar born?
The states with the most babies named Lavar are New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 169 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 78 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 66 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Utah | 64 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Virginia | 55 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 48 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 38 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Lavar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lavar is most over-represented in New York: since 1915 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lavar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,141 babies since 1880, Lavar is the most given (97% of them).
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 Lavar
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 Lavar and names like it
- Compare Lavar and LavarrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLavar peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavar since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Lavar.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lavar alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.