Lavette
Lavette was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 1,190 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Lavette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 45 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,408, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1967, the peak
Lavette peaked in 1967, when 67 girls were given it, #1,342 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #15,408 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,636 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,936 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,372 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,101 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,822 | 6.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,409 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,497 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,119 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,416 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 20 | #4,593 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,398 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,201 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,118 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,361 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,094 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,037 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,594 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,192 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,964 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,395 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,706 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,357 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,052 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,643 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,369 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,329 | 22.6 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,709 | 34.2 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,674 | 33.1 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,495 | 38.3 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,769 | 28.5 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,796 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,342 | 40.6 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,968 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,399 | 35.1 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,650 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,934 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,438 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,901 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,544 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,315 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,168 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,815 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,804 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,307 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,203 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,014 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,644 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,564 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavette has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lavette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavette, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,190 Americans ever recorded as Lavette. The median Lavette alive today is 55 years old; half are between 45 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 965 people named Lavette (950 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 202 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 610 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 248 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 3,928 babies since 1880, Lavette is the second most given (30% 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 Lavette
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 Lavette and names like it
- Compare Lavette and LavetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLavette peaked in 1967.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavette since 1910.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Lavette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lavette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.