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Lavonne vs Lavoris

American parents have registered 16,660 Lavonnes since 1880, against 375 Lavorises. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lavonne Lavoris

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 2006, when Lavonne had 6 and Lavoris had 5.

Side by side

  Lavonne Lavoris
Total US births 16,660375
Most in one year 49646
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8,000340
Median age today 7049
Peak year 19351985
Best rank 274th girls3,070th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19001961
Girls / boys 16,443 / 217163 / 212

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 Lavorises are over 49. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lavonne and Lavoris.