girls:
10 births since 2020
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
216 births since 2006
#4370 (5th percentile)
overall:
226 births since 2006
#7513 (3rd percentile)
The name Lavi is the #7,513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 226 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 2.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,370 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 216 births since 2006. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2020.
Lavi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 (2006 for boys and 2020 for girls). Birth data for Lavi is available in 16 out of the 18 years between 2006 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 2 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 Lavi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lavi reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #883) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lavi ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 92.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lavi reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavi".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Lavi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.8% confident that Lavi is pronounced as LAH-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-vee, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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