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Lavern vs Lavita

American parents have registered 17,081 Laverns since 1880, against 714 Lavitas. Lavern is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lavern Lavita

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

Lavern has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1978, when Lavern had 19 and Lavita had 18.

Side by side

  Lavern Lavita
Total US births 17,081714
Most in one year 43534
Babies in 2025 26under 5
Estimated living today 6,500620
Median age today 6752
Peak year 19241981
Best rank 346th boys2,657th girls
Rank in 2025 4,050thunranked
First recorded 18801923
Girls / boys 6,845 / 10,236714 / 0

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 Laverns alive today are over 67; half the Lavitas are over 52. That is 15 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: Lavern and Lavita.