Luvern — boys' name

What the Data Says About Luvern

The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Luvern between 1912 and 1960, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Luvern currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Luvern is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 107 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Luvern performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Luvern shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Dakota and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Luvern in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Luvern in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 266 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.