girls:
16.4k births since 1900
#1165 (80th percentile)
boys:
217 births since 1926
#4369 (5th percentile)
overall:
16.7k births since 1900
#2003 (74th percentile)
The name Lavonne is the #2,003 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,659 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 74.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,165 (79.6% percentile) for all time with 16,442 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,369 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 217 births since 1926.
Lavonne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1926 for boys). Birth data for Lavonne is available in 111 out of the 120 years between 1900 and 2019 (111 years for girls and 32 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 Lavonne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lavonne reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 54.3% percentile (ranked #264) with 448 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 448 births per million (ranked 54.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Lavonne reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #511) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavonne".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lavonne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Lavonne is pronounced as luh-VAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-VAWN, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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