Laverne
Laverne is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 165th, in 1928.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19241,383 births
- Best rank
- #165in 1928
- Since 1885
- 56,114people given the name
The story in the numbers
42,869 girls have been named Laverne in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 1,383 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 1,383 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Laverne is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are boys (13,245), most of them born around 1928.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laverne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 26 | |
| 1890s | 174 | |
| 1900s | 581 | |
| 1910s | 5,039 | |
| 1920s | 12,642 | |
| 1930s | 8,189 | |
| 1940s | 5,861 | |
| 1950s | 5,772 | |
| 1960s | 3,271 | |
| 1970s | 958 | |
| 1980s | 252 | |
| 1990s | 99 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Laverne was the 169th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Laverne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorispeak 1928
- Margoriepeak 1925
- Juanitapeak 1924
- Vernellepeak 1924
- Ardispeak 1928
- Jaunitapeak 1924
- Maxinepeak 1924
- Junepeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.