Lavera
Lavera was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 2,618 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,397, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
77 babies in 1925, the peak
Lavera peaked in 1925, when 77 girls were given it, #850 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,397 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,798 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,862 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,782 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,047 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,036 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,360 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,633 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,356 | 3.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,818 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #15,584 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,459 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,845 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,788 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,201 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,221 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,016 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,386 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,768 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,776 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,854 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,557 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,991 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,729 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,652 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,082 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,593 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,133 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,112 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,388 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,121 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,740 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,767 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,575 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,711 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,778 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,042 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,380 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,305 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,898 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,922 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,985 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,341 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,963 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,129 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,869 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,022 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,339 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,314 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,304 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,878 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,881 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,437 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,210 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,155 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,296 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,087 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,976 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,643 | 19.3 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,918 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,804 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,792 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,681 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,998 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,611 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,257 | 30.4 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,257 | 30.6 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,364 | 27.1 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,207 | 33.7 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,294 | 29.0 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,188 | 34.8 |
| 1936 | 41 | #1,108 | 39.4 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,322 | 29.6 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,067 | 41.2 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,068 | 42.7 |
| 1932 | 56 | #948 | 52.5 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,065 | 41.3 |
| 1930 | 65 | #902 | 57.7 |
| 1929 | 53 | #996 | 47.5 |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,002 | 48.6 |
| 1927 | 62 | #972 | 52.0 |
| 1926 | 63 | #947 | 53.1 |
| 1925 | 77 | #850 | 63.3 |
| 1924 | 74 | #873 | 59.3 |
| 1923 | 62 | #936 | 51.4 |
| 1922 | 74 | #857 | 61.6 |
| 1921 | 72 | #872 | 58.4 |
| 1920 | 60 | #945 | 50.1 |
| 1919 | 63 | #885 | 55.7 |
| 1918 | 59 | #932 | 51.0 |
| 1917 | 53 | #958 | 49.0 |
| 1916 | 64 | #852 | 61.3 |
| 1915 | 41 | #1,048 | 41.7 |
| 1914 | 41 | #929 | 53.8 |
| 1913 | 32 | #955 | 51.2 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,197 | 35.8 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,335 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,045 | 45.4 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,334 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,169 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,250 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 17 | #906 | 57.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,089 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,027 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 14 | #950 | 53.4 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,707 | 22.7 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,081 | 43.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,061 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,606 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,215 | 34.2 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,166 | 38.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavera, and how old are they?
An estimated 886 Americans named Lavera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 48 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,016 people named Lavera (1,008 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,086 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,041 babies since 1880, Lavera is the most given (86% 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 Lavera
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 Lavera and names like it
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- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Lavera.
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