Lavontae
Lavontae was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,637 among boys’ names; 457 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavontae?
#8,637 among boys’ names, 2025
Lavontae fell from #8,433 in 2015 to #8,637 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 5.3 per million.
23 babies in 2007, the peak
Lavontae peaked in 2007, when 23 boys were given it, #4,307 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,637 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,502 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,741 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,085 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,908 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,845 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,702 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,302 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,358 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,915 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,433 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,489 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,299 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,873 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,840 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,235 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,976 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,017 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,307 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,686 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,748 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,909 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,430 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,044 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,039 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,933 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,560 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,782 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,143 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,775 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,382 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,983 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,613 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,236 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,969 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavontae has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavontae, and how old are they?
An estimated 449 Americans named Lavontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 305 people named Lavontae (12 women and girls, 293 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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, Lavontae is the second most given (19% 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 Lavontae
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 Lavontae and names like it
- Compare Lavontae and LavonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLavontae peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lavontae since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lavontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lavontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.