Lavona
Lavona was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,796 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,053, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1934, the peak
Lavona peaked in 1934, when 52 girls were given it, #961 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,053 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,190 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,711 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,721 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,836 | 4.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,966 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,673 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,865 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,801 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,800 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #8,545 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,176 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,120 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,769 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,014 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,127 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,291 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,884 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,921 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,395 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,623 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,923 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,083 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,049 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,662 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,685 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,718 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,590 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,163 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,305 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,388 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,993 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,310 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,559 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,754 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,989 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,942 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,611 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,576 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,689 | 18.3 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,244 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,996 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,113 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,057 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,772 | 17.2 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,950 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,632 | 19.9 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,330 | 28.0 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,190 | 34.7 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,258 | 30.8 |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,056 | 43.2 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,256 | 31.7 |
| 1935 | 48 | #1,000 | 45.8 |
| 1934 | 52 | #961 | 49.8 |
| 1933 | 51 | #964 | 50.6 |
| 1932 | 44 | #1,075 | 41.2 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,066 | 41.3 |
| 1930 | 51 | #1,037 | 45.3 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,127 | 38.5 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,170 | 37.3 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,135 | 38.6 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,600 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,262 | 32.0 |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,177 | 36.0 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,368 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,413 | 27.5 |
| 1921 | 43 | #1,176 | 34.9 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,094 | 39.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,504 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,160 | 36.3 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,227 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,317 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,181 | 34.6 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,576 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,832 | 19.2 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,453 | 26.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,336 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,604 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,253 | 34.6 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,618 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,727 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,644 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,610 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,025 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,386 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,708 | 22.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavona, and how old are they?
An estimated 610 Americans named Lavona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 58 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 786 people named Lavona (785 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 784 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Where are babies named Lavona born?
The states with the most babies named Lavona are Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Kansas and Nebraska are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 128 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Kansas | 48 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Nebraska | 38 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Missouri | 37 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Lavona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lavona is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lavona with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,759 babies since 1880, Lavona is the sixth most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 136 babies recorded by SSA was a Lavona (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lavona
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 Lavona and names like it
- Compare Lavona and LavonneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sLavona peaked in 1934.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavona since 1910.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Lavona.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lavona alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.