Laverne
The girl's name Laverne has been in the national records since 1885, with 56,124 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 17,000 Lavernes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Laverne boys named Laverne
Girls and boys called Laverne
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 42,878 girls and 13,246 boys in all, and in 1990 the split was 18 to 10.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 94 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 56,124
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 169th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,107th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 42,878 / 13,246
How old the living Lavernes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 56,124 babies given the name since 1885, about 17,000 are alive — 31 in every hundred. Roughly 110 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
19th-century invention, possibly from the Californian town La Verne, named in the belief that it means "the green" in French. Laverne is a genuine French surname, from Gaulish la verne "the alder (tree place)" but - as in the case of Leroy - there is no apparent reason to turn it into an American given name.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lavernes
- Laverne Cox (born 1972)American actress and LGBT advocate
People named Laverne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Laverne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Laverne is most concentrated in North Dakota (4.3×), Wisconsin (4.1×), South Dakota (2.8×), Illinois (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Laverne peaked:
Laverne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Laverne | 6 | 443rd |
| England and Wales girls | Laverne | 5 | 2,738th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Laverne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.