Lavenia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lavenia

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,691 babies named Lavenia between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lavenia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 36 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lavenia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 291 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Lavenia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lavenia in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lavenia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,691 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.