Lavera — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lavera

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,618 babies named Lavera between 1895 and 2023, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lavera currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 77 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lavera performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 653 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Lavera shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 74 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Lavera in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lavera 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 2,618 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.