girls:
1.2k births since 1947
#4533 (21st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1911
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1911
#6550 (15th percentile)
The name Lavette is the #6,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,190 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 15.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,533 (20.7% percentile) for all time with 1,185 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1911.
Lavette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Lavette is available in 50 out of the 106 years between 1911 and 2016 (49 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Lavette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1947, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1911 to 1946), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1947 to 2016).
For girls, Lavette reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #676) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 39 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Lavette reached its peak popularity in 1911, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #297) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1911.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavette".
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