Laverna
Laverna was last recorded in 1985, when 7 babies were given it; 3,733 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laverna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laverna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laverna is “a female given name from Latin, probably a latinized version of the earlier and much more popular Laverne.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laverna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,838, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
127 babies in 1920, the peak
Laverna peaked in 1920, when 127 girls were given it, #641 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | #8,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,315 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,775 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,048 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 19 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,616 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,120 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,883 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,715 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,031 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,127 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,001 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,965 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,514 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 50 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,325 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 52 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 55 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 46 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 56 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 57 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 44 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 59 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 64 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 74 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 83 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 70 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 91 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 85 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 93 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 101 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 82 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 102 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 111 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 98 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 114 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 111 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 112 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 127 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 120 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 112 | #679 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 104 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 90 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 82 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 62 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 42 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 41 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 27 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 22 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 22 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,978 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 14 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 13 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,185 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,503 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,243 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laverna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laverna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laverna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laverna, and how old are they?
An estimated 973 Americans named Laverna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 64 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,207 people named Laverna (1,194 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,294 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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).
Where are babies named Laverna born?
The states with the most babies named Laverna are Nebraska, Kansas and Wisconsin, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Nebraska and Kansas and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 173 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Kansas | 136 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Wisconsin | 118 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 116 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 102 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 101 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 89 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 89 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Laverna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laverna is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1910 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Laverna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 59,857 babies since 1880, Laverna is the second most given (6.2% 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 Laverna
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 Laverna and names like it
- Compare Laverna and LaverneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLaverna peaked in 1920.
- Nebraska’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laverna since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Laverna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Laverna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Laverna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.