Lavina vs Lavonna
American parents have registered 6,781 Lavinas since 1880, against 1,980 Lavonnas. Lavina is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lavina Lavonna
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 146 years in which either name was published, Lavina for 133 years and Lavonna for 13 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–1959 Lavina ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1965–1968 Lavonna ahead
- 1969–1990 Lavina ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1991–1993 Lavonna ahead
- 1994–2025 Lavina ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lavina | Lavonna | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,781 | 1,980 |
| Most in one year | 157 | 48 |
| Babies in 2025 | 56 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,600 | 1,400 |
| Median age today | 49 | 59 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1963 |
| Best rank | 574th girls | 1,649th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,957th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1918 |
| Girls / boys | 6,781 / 0 | 1,980 / 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 Lavonnas alive today are over 59; half the Lavinas are over 49. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Lavina South Dakota (9.2×), North Dakota (7.0×), Pennsylvania (5.7×)
- Lavonna Oklahoma (28.2×), California (2.9×), Texas (1.4×)
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: Lavina and Lavonna.