girls:
6.8k births since 1893
#1985 (65th percentile)
boys:
10.2k births since 1880
#1157 (75th percentile)
overall:
17k births since 1880
#1978 (74th percentile)
The name Lavern is the #1,978 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,017 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,157 (74.8% percentile) for all time with 10,172 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,985 (65.3% percentile) for all time with 6,845 births since 1893.
Lavern has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1893 for girls). Birth data for Lavern is available in 132 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (128 years for boys and 99 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lavern has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (59.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Lavern were boys.
For boys, Lavern reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 41.8% percentile (ranked #323) with 248 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 253 births per million (ranked 41.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lavern ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 6.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lavern reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 23.5% percentile (ranked #557) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 116 births per million (ranked 22.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavern".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lavern", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Laverne" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Laverne..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lavern. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Lavern is pronounced as luh-VERN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-vern, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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