Lavita
Lavita was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 714 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,970, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1981, the peak
Lavita peaked in 1981, when 34 girls were given it, #2,691 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,970 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,373 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,262 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,378 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,906 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,768 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,856 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,974 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,330 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,556 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 19 | #4,084 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,791 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,595 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,691 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,863 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,517 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,995 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,335 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,750 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,466 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,137 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,073 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,639 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,320 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,421 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,152 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,920 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,013 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,463 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,788 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,310 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,546 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,230 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,126 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,047 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,929 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,463 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,644 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,163 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,469 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,097 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,679 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,210 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,470 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,034 | 3.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,935 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,010 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,202 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,599 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,555 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,575 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,131 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,955 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,414 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,694 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavita, and how old are they?
An estimated 614 Americans named Lavita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 45 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 615 people named Lavita (615 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 3,452 babies since 1880, Lavita is the third most given (21% 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 Lavita
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 Lavita and names like it
- Compare Lavita and LavetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLavita peaked in 1981.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavita since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Lavita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lavita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.