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Lavon

girls’ name · 55%boys’ name · 45%FadedCompare

Lavon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 537th, in 1934.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1924152 births
Best rank
#537in 1934
Since 1896
11,309people given the name
Babies named Lavon, by year of birthgirlsboys
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The story in the numbers

6,242 girls have been named Lavon in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 152 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 152 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Lavon is used for both sexes: 45% of its bearers are boys (5,067), most of them born around 2006.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Lavon
1890s24
1900s153
1910s611
1920s1,327
1930s1,238
1940s856
1950s751
1960s575
1970s357
1980s219
1990s99
2000s27
2010s5

In 1924, its biggest year

Lavon was the 606th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.

Names that rose and fell with Lavon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.