Girls' name · since 1960
Lavonya
251 babies named Lavonya in U.S. Social Security records since 1960, with the highest year being 1973. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #17,559 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 251
- born since 1960
- 1970s
- peak decade
Lavonya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 251 have been recorded since 1960.
Lavonya has 251 recorded births among girls since 1960, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1960 to 1992.
- #17,559 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 251 born since 1960
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lavonya ranks #17,559 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 251 born since 1960, peaking in the 1970s.
- #17,559 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 251
- born since 1960
- 1970s
- peak decade
Lavonya's 251 recorded births place it above 75.7% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lavonya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Lavonya's SSA record in two at 1977 and the more recent half accounts for 45% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 55%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1960, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1973 peak of 23, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Lavonya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1960–1992
- Peak year (1973)
- 23
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Lavonya by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (135 births, 54% of the file).
1970s was Lavonya's strongest decade.
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Lavonya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 38
1960s
38 births
- 1970s
1970s
135 births
- 1980s
1980s
66 births
- 1990s 12
1990s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 135 births (54% of all-time use).
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- Lavonya's decade-level peak was the 1970s (135 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lavonya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1973)
Similar record span (~32 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1960–1992 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lavonya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.