Lavenia
Lavenia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 654th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192036 births
- Best rank
- #654in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,691people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,691 girls have been named Lavenia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 36 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lavenia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 53 | |
| 1890s | 68 | |
| 1900s | 92 | |
| 1910s | 187 | |
| 1920s | 291 | |
| 1930s | 213 | |
| 1940s | 206 | |
| 1950s | 185 | |
| 1960s | 156 | |
| 1970s | 148 | |
| 1980s | 55 | |
| 1990s | 19 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 13 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Lavenia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Lavenia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Margretpeak 1921
- Rhodapeak 1926
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Louellapeak 1932
- Harriettpeak 1920
- Partheniapeak 1923
- Rosapeak 1925
- Luepeak 1919
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.