Lavette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lavette

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,185 babies named Lavette between 1947 and 2016, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lavette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1967, when 67 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lavette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 409 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lavette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lavette in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lavette 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 1,185 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.