Lavon
About 11,359 American babies have been named Lavon since 1896, most of them around 1924. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 6,300 Lavons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Lavon
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Lavon crossed from girls to boys in 1977, and has stayed there for 49 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 116 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
- 11,359
- Estimated living today
- 6,300
- Median age today
- 49
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 604th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 6,246 / 5,113
How old the living Lavons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,359 babies given the name since 1896, about 6,300 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 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.
Notable Lavons
- Lavon Volski (born 1965)Belarus musician and painter
People named Lavon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lavon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lavon is most concentrated in Utah (8.9×), Iowa (8.0×), Kansas (5.0×), Nebraska (4.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Lavon peaked:
Related names
Lavon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.