Lavinia — #2129 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lavinia

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,580 babies named Lavinia between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lavinia currently holds the #2129 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 93 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lavinia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 740 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lavinia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 221 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Lavinia in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lavinia 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 5,580 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.