girls:
31 births since 2014
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
67 births since 2018
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
98 births since 2014
#7641 (1st percentile)
The name Lavie is the #7,641 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 98 recorded births since 2014. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 2018. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 2014.
Lavie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for girls and 2018 for boys). Birth data for Lavie is available in 8 out of the 10 years between 2014 and 2023 (6 years for boys and 5 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 Lavie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 64.7% of babies named Lavie were boys. Interestingly, until around 2019, the name was more popular for girls (52.0% girls from 2014 to 2018), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (75.3% boys from 2019 to 2023).
For boys, Lavie reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #909) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Lavie ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 88.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lavie reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #958) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Lavie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #946 (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavie".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Lavie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.9% confident that Lavie is pronounced as luh-VEE, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-vee, at 22.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L AH0 V IY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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