Lavina
Lavina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 33 births. Its best rank was 349th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 330.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920157 births
- Best rank
- #349in 1885
- Since 1880
- 6,723people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,723 girls have been named Lavina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 157 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 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lavina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 245 | |
| 1890s | 361 | |
| 1900s | 424 | |
| 1910s | 1,007 | |
| 1920s | 1,178 | |
| 1930s | 804 | |
| 1940s | 484 | |
| 1950s | 422 | |
| 1960s | 309 | |
| 1970s | 328 | |
| 1980s | 230 | |
| 1990s | 197 | |
| 2000s | 237 | |
| 2010s | 322 | |
| 2020s | 175 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Lavina was the 574th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Lavina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Edithpeak 1918
- Nellpeak 1917
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Inapeak 1921
- Anniepeak 1922
- Henriettapeak 1918
- Corneliapeak 1921
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.