Lavender
Lavender was given to 220 girls in 2025, #1,095 among girls’ names; 2,323 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Lavender and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavender by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lavender mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lavender is “a female given name from English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lavender?
#1,095 among girls’ names, 2025
Lavender rose from #2,868 in 2015 to #1,095 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.14 per 1,000.
261 babies in 2024, the peak
Lavender peaked in 2024, when 261 girls were given it, #993 among girls’ names. The 220 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 220 | #1,095 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 261 | #993 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 204 | #1,176 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,263 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,394 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,780 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,959 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,211 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,259 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,868 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,349 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,347 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,151 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,196 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,714 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,151 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,083 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,753 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,048 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,319 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,009 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,938 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,134 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,988 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,239 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,247 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,725 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,319 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,787 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,324 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,860 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,893 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,289 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,456 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,089 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,777 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,097 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavender a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavender has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavender: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavender, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,323 Americans ever recorded as Lavender. The median Lavender alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,122 people named Lavender (1,092 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 76 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 473 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,720 |
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 Lavender born?
The states with the most babies named Lavender are California, Texas and Ohio, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,206 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,438 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 15 | #658 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 12 | #499 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 11 | #713 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 10 | #957 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,622 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,069 | 0.4× |
| New York | 7 | #1,754 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 7 | #865 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Lavender with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lavender
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 Lavender and names like it
- Compare Lavender and AlessiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLavender peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavender since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Lavender: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lavender.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lavender alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.