Lavar
Lavar is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 486th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1977279 births
- Best rank
- #486in 1977
- Since 1915
- 2,067people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,067 boys have been named Lavar in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 279 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 279 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1970s alone account for 29%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lavar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | |
| 1920s | 58 | |
| 1930s | 82 | |
| 1940s | 12 | |
| 1950s | 18 | |
| 1960s | 10 | |
| 1970s | 605 | |
| 1980s | 574 | |
| 1990s | 223 | |
| 2000s | 302 | |
| 2010s | 135 | |
| 2020s | 24 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Lavar was the 486th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1977 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Lavar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tavarespeak 1977
- Senecapeak 1977
- Levarpeak 1977
- Rasheenpeak 1979
- Jeremiepeak 1976
- Shaunpeak 1978
- Jeramiepeak 1976
- Rashanpeak 1979
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.