Lavina vs Lavon
American parents have registered 11,359 Lavons since 1880, against 6,781 Lavinas. But in 2025 it was Lavina that was commoner, 56 babies to 43.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lavina Lavon
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, Lavon for 103 years and Lavina for 43 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.
Side by side
| Lavina | Lavon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,781 | 11,359 |
| Most in one year | 157 | 201 |
| Babies in 2025 | 56 | 43 |
| Estimated living today | 2,600 | 6,300 |
| Median age today | 49 | 49 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1924 |
| Best rank | 574th girls | 604th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,957th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1896 |
| Girls / boys | 6,781 / 0 | 6,246 / 5,113 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Lavina South Dakota (9.2×), North Dakota (7.0×), Pennsylvania (5.7×)
- Lavon Utah (8.9×), Iowa (8.0×), Kansas (5.0×)
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 Lavon.