Lavonta
Lavonta was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 338 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavonta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavonta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,409, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1993, the peak
Lavonta peaked in 1993, when 29 boys were given it, #2,546 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #10,409 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,565 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,166 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,447 | 2.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,686 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,318 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,055 | 5.0 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,400 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,044 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,535 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #9,234 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,920 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,038 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,932 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,670 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,543 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,371 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,061 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,360 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,535 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,546 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,780 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,747 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,862 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,687 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,003 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,644 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,131 | 4.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,856 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavonta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 338 Americans recorded as Lavonta, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lavonta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavonta, and how old are they?
An estimated 328 Americans named Lavonta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 278 people named Lavonta (40 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,414 babies since 1880, Lavonta is the third most given (14% 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 Lavonta
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 Lavonta and names like it
- Compare Lavonta and LavonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLavonta peaked in 1993.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavonta since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Lavonta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lavonta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.