Lavona
Lavona is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 961st, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193452 births
- Best rank
- #961in 1934
- Since 1902
- 1,791people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,791 girls have been named Lavona in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1934, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1930s alone account for 25%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lavona | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 60 | |
| 1910s | 226 | |
| 1920s | 400 | |
| 1930s | 441 | |
| 1940s | 224 | |
| 1950s | 177 | |
| 1960s | 127 | |
| 1970s | 69 | |
| 1980s | 47 | |
| 1990s | 20 |
In 1934, its biggest year
Lavona was the 961st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1934 were Mary, Betty, Barbara, Shirley and Dorothy. See all of 1934.
Names that rose and fell with Lavona
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Loycepeak 1933
- Veltapeak 1927
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Melbapeak 1924
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Erminiapeak 1923
Other spellings in the data
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.