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Lavender

#1,095 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

Lavender has been given to 2,323 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #1,095 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 261 recorded.

Babies named Lavender, 2025

1 in 15,100

Lavender over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lavender: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

English

What Lavender means

Lavender is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lavender is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,323 girls were recorded with the name Lavender between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 261 in 2024; its best national rank was #993 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,430 in 2020 to #1,095 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,868 in 2015 to #1,095 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lavender?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,100
220 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,310
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,095
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,446 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lavender sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,446 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lavender. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lavenders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lavender was born before 2020 — so the typical Lavender is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,323
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (1,185).

Is Lavender rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−102
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+335
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,773
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.3%
Peak was 2024 (261)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#993
2024

Where Lavender is used

Across 2016–2025, Lavender was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 11,529 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

321 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 4,762
  2. 2Oregon1 in 5,263
  3. 3Ohio1 in 6,250
  4. 4Michigan1 in 6,667
  5. 5Washington1 in 7,143
  6. 6Georgia1 in 7,692
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 7,692
  8. 8Utah1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Lavender around the world

Where Lavender ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lavender

People whose public names include Lavender, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lavender by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,095
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 335
Best rank ever
#993
2024
Peak year
2024
261 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,323
Count in 2025
220

Names similar to Lavender

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Lavender

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lavender, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lavender

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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