Lavon — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lavon

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,242 babies named Lavon between 1896 and 2011, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lavon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 152 babies received it in a single year. Lavon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,067 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lavon performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,327 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Lavon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 445 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Lavon in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lavon 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 6,242 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.