Laverna
Laverna is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 634th, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920127 births
- Best rank
- #634in 1919
- Since 1889
- 3,733people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,733 girls have been named Laverna in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 127 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 127 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laverna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 54 | |
| 1900s | 115 | |
| 1910s | 702 | |
| 1920s | 1,051 | |
| 1930s | 683 | |
| 1940s | 454 | |
| 1950s | 328 | |
| 1960s | 211 | |
| 1970s | 103 | |
| 1980s | 25 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Laverna was the 641st most given girl’s name 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 Laverna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alenepeak 1920
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Marianpeak 1924
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Marjorypeak 1921
- Verlapeak 1922
- Vernicepeak 1923
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.