Lavon
Lavon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 537th, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1924152 births
- Best rank
- #537in 1934
- Since 1896
- 11,309people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,242 girls have been named Lavon in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 152 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 152 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Lavon is used for both sexes: 45% of its bearers are boys (5,067), most of them born around 2006.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lavon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 24 | |
| 1900s | 153 | |
| 1910s | 611 | |
| 1920s | 1,327 | |
| 1930s | 1,238 | |
| 1940s | 856 | |
| 1950s | 751 | |
| 1960s | 575 | |
| 1970s | 357 | |
| 1980s | 219 | |
| 1990s | 99 | |
| 2000s | 27 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Lavon was the 606th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Lavon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Juanitapeak 1924
- Onitapeak 1925
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Charlinepeak 1928
- Lavonapeak 1934
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Melbapeak 1924
- Loycepeak 1933
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.