Lavonya
Lavonya was last recorded in 1992, when 7 babies were given it; 251 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavonya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavonya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,143, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1973, the peak
Lavonya peaked in 1973, when 23 girls were given it, #2,964 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 7 | #11,143 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,388 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,226 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,450 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,389 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,792 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,880 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,617 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,802 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,962 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 11 | #5,780 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,798 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,338 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,011 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,878 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,964 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,292 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,727 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,794 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,594 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,358 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,342 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,416 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,878 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavonya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavonya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavonya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavonya, and how old are they?
An estimated 236 Americans named Lavonya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 44 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Lavonya (256 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Lavonya?
Lavonya is a less common spelling of Lavonia: SSA has recorded 251 Lavonya and 1,901 Lavonia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,720 babies since 1880, Lavonya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 136 babies recorded by SSA was a Lavonya (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 Lavonya
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 Lavonya and names like it
- Compare Lavonya and LavoniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLavonya peaked in 1973.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Lavonya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lavonya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.