Lavaughn vs Laverne
American parents have registered 56,124 Lavernes since 1880, against 1,898 Lavaughns. Laverne is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lavaughn Laverne
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Laverne for 124 years and Lavaughn for 16 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1885–1997 Laverne ahead
- 2000–2002 Lavaughn ahead
- 2003–2005 Laverne ahead
- 2006–2019 Lavaughn ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2023–2025 Laverne ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lavaughn | Laverne | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,898 | 56,124 |
| Most in one year | 52 | 1,785 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 860 | 17,000 |
| Median age today | 52 | 72 |
| Peak year | 1923 | 1924 |
| Best rank | 1,327th girls | 169th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 10,107th |
| First recorded | 1906 | 1885 |
| Girls / boys | 962 / 936 | 42,878 / 13,246 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Lavernes alive today are over 72; half the Lavaughns are over 52. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lavaughn and Laverne.