Lavern
Lavern is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 347th, in 1924.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1924290 births
- Best rank
- #347in 1924
- Since 1880
- 17,048people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,203 boys have been named Lavern in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 290 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Lavern is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are girls (6,845), most of them born around 1957.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lavern | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 23 | |
| 1900s | 74 | |
| 1910s | 1,090 | |
| 1920s | 2,628 | |
| 1930s | 2,177 | |
| 1940s | 1,379 | |
| 1950s | 960 | |
| 1960s | 602 | |
| 1970s | 281 | |
| 1980s | 200 | |
| 1990s | 172 | |
| 2000s | 233 | |
| 2010s | 225 | |
| 2020s | 148 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Lavern was the 347th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Lavern
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Merlinpeak 1927
- Dormanpeak 1928
- Eldonpeak 1926
- Verlepeak 1920
- Norbertpeak 1924
- Beaufordpeak 1934
- Winfordpeak 1928
- Hoylepeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.