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Lavergne vs Lavonne

American parents have registered 16,660 Lavonnes since 1880, against 543 Lavergnes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lavergne against Lavonne, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lavergne Lavonne

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

Lavonne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2019. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1915, when Lavergne had 26 and Lavonne had 74.

Side by side

  Lavergne Lavonne
Total US births 54316,660
Most in one year 37496
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 408,000
Median age today 8670
Peak year 19251935
Best rank 1,296th girls274th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19121900
Girls / boys 526 / 1716,443 / 217

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 Lavergnes alive today are over 86; half the Lavonnes are over 70. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lavergne and Lavonne.