Lavinia
Lavinia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 89 births. Its best rank was 360th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 890.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 192193 births
- Best rank
- #360in 1880
- Since 1880
- 5,580people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,580 girls have been named Lavinia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 93 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lavinia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 225 | |
| 1890s | 300 | |
| 1900s | 310 | |
| 1910s | 578 | |
| 1920s | 740 | |
| 1930s | 382 | |
| 1940s | 350 | |
| 1950s | 362 | |
| 1960s | 380 | |
| 1970s | 350 | |
| 1980s | 197 | |
| 1990s | 171 | |
| 2000s | 264 | |
| 2010s | 586 | |
| 2020s | 385 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Lavinia was the 759th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Lavinia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adeliapeak 2017
- Estellapeak 1921
- Arapeak 2022
- Clarapeak 1918
- Lenapeak 1917
- Minervapeak 1955
- Evapeak 1918
- Annapeak 1918
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.