Lavin — boys' name
141 babies named Lavin in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Lavin was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Lavin in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lavin
The Social Security Administration has registered 141 babies named Lavin between 1956 and 2023, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lavin currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Lavin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 26 additional births since 2017.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lavin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 81 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Lavin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lavin 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 141 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.
Lavin at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lavin popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1956
- Peak year (2022)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 68 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
141 total births across 68 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 15 births in a single year.
Lavin popularity over time — girls
26 total births recorded since 2017 (Lavin as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Lavin accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Lavin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 81 births that decade — 57% of Lavin's all-time total
Lavin decade highlights
- Peak decade 81 births
- Runner-up 35 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Lavin's strongest decade
81 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1956–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.