Lavonia
Lavonia was last recorded in 1994, when 6 babies were given it; 1,901 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavonia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lavonia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lavonia is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lavonia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,693, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1923, the peak
Lavonia peaked in 1923, when 37 girls were given it, #1,292 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,693 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,511 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,379 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,239 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,473 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,718 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,449 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,290 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,553 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,700 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 17 | #4,444 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,751 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,407 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,749 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,996 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,702 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,888 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,009 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,633 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,662 | 18.5 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,252 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,312 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,554 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,622 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,827 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,014 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,488 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,789 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,182 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,663 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,704 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,794 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,778 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,047 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,816 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,781 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,132 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,899 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,838 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,646 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,622 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,825 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,937 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,180 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,560 | 21.2 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,774 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,832 | 15.9 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,291 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,058 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,730 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,013 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,633 | 19.9 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,771 | 18.4 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,333 | 28.3 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,295 | 29.0 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,479 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,220 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,053 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,464 | 24.9 |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,297 | 30.8 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,612 | 21.6 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,478 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,553 | 23.1 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,673 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,567 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,600 | 22.6 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,909 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,454 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,547 | 24.0 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,292 | 30.7 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,524 | 25.0 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,645 | 21.9 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,332 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,584 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,370 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,391 | 26.8 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,837 | 18.2 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,384 | 27.4 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,514 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,333 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,254 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,599 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,296 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,419 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,170 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,115 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,127 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,091 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,026 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,508 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,522 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,278 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,079 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,238 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 13 | #992 | 50.2 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,464 | 25.6 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,539 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,366 | 28.3 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,387 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,215 | 33.6 |
| 1880 | 5 | #885 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavonia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavonia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavonia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavonia, and how old are they?
An estimated 878 Americans named Lavonia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 52 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 905 people named Lavonia (899 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,014 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Lavonia born?
The states with the most babies named Lavonia are Georgia, Texas and Alabama, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 187 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Lavonia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lavonia is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 3.6 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 Lavonia 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, Lavonia is the fifth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 136 babies recorded by SSA was a Lavonia (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 Lavonia
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 Lavonia and names like it
- Compare Lavonia and LavonneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLavonia peaked in 1923.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavonia since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Lavonia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lavonia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.