Laverne — unisex name

What the Data Says About Laverne

The Social Security Administration has registered 42,869 babies named Laverne between 1885 and 2003, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laverne currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 1,383 babies received it in a single year. Laverne is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13,245 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laverne performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 12,642 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Laverne shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5,328 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Laverne in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laverne 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 42,869 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.