Lavida
Lavida was last recorded in 1989, when 6 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavida?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,664, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1970, the peak
Lavida peaked in 1970, when 10 girls were given it, #5,249 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,664 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,668 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,631 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,316 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,745 | 3.6 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,779 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,333 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,249 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,065 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,622 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #7,127 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,765 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,243 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,092 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,877 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,172 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,209 | 4.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,728 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,036 | 3.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,608 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,946 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,765 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,922 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,230 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,708 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,769 | 4.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,531 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,674 | 5.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,029 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavida, and how old are they?
An estimated 110 Americans named Lavida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 46 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 205 people named Lavida (205 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5,756 babies since 1880, Lavida is the third most given (3.1% 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.
More about Lavida and names like it
- Compare Lavida and LavadaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLavida peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Lavida.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lavida alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.