Lavena
Lavena was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,263 among girls’ names; 1,223 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavena?
#16,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Lavena entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,263 in 2025.
32 babies in 1922, the peak
Lavena peaked in 1922, when 32 girls were given it, #1,445 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,263 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,627 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,656 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,474 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,861 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,134 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,171 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,926 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,707 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,930 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #12,162 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,366 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,219 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,726 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,736 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,377 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,215 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,080 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,349 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,242 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,093 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,191 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,213 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,750 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,650 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,455 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,174 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,995 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,822 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,342 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,570 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,811 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,422 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,319 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,636 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,304 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,119 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,763 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,331 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,673 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,991 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,402 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,982 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,404 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,814 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,834 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,815 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,779 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,662 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,930 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,477 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,131 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,678 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,395 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,538 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,506 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,380 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,983 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,336 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,022 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,705 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,958 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,263 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,788 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,863 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,032 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,067 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,880 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,836 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,813 | 18.1 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,369 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,690 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,845 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,837 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,487 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,737 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,869 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,538 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,122 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,973 | 16.4 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,740 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,704 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,445 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,796 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,603 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,956 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,924 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,961 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,424 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,597 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,532 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,239 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,252 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,598 | 23.9 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,094 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,766 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,220 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,609 | 24.0 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,521 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,812 | 20.9 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,667 | 21.3 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,365 | 28.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavena, and how old are they?
An estimated 564 Americans named Lavena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 43 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 603 people named Lavena (598 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 22,322 babies since 1880, Lavena is the eighth most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 141 babies (3.5%), 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 Lavena
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 Lavena and names like it
- Compare Lavena and LavinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLavena peaked in 1922.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavena since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Lavena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lavena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.