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Lavone vs Lavonne

American parents have registered 16,660 Lavonnes since 1880, against 1,290 Lavones. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lavone 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 1907, when Lavone had 5 and Lavonne had 10.

Side by side

  Lavone Lavonne
Total US births 1,29016,660
Most in one year 33496
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5808,000
Median age today 6770
Peak year 19241935
Best rank 1,440th girls274th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19071900
Girls / boys 1,173 / 11716,443 / 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 Lavonnes alive today are over 70; half the Lavones are over 67. That is 3 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: Lavone and Lavonne.