girls:
11 births since 1991
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1978
#3322 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1978
#6439 (17th percentile)
The name Lavonte is the #6,439 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,303 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,322 (27.5% percentile) for all time with 1,292 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1991.
Lavonte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Lavonte is available in 44 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (44 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 Lavonte has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lavonte reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #715) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 45 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lavonte ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 20.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lavonte reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavonte".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Lavonte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.0% confident that Lavonte is pronounced as luh-VAHN-tay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-VAHNT, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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