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Lavi

#2,740 in 2025Boys' name

Lion

Lavi has been given to 297 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #2,740 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Lavi, 2025

1 in 70,500

Lavi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lavi: meaning, origin, and history

Lion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lavi means

Lavi means “lion”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 287 boys were recorded with the name Lavi between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,740 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,357 in 2020 to #2,740 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,815 in 2015 to #2,740 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Lavi between 2020 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #16,481 in 2020.

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.

How common is Lavi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,740
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lavi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lavi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lavis were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Lavi 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
+1,766
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,617
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,075
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (47)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,740
2025

Spellings of Lavi

Lavi is not the most common spelling — David is, with 81.8% against Lavi's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lavi is used

Across 1910–2025, Lavi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 678,657 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lavi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lavi around the world

Where Lavi 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.

  • France
    2022–2022
    #6,268
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lavi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,740
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,617
Best rank ever
#2,740
2025
Peak year
2025
47 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
287
Count in 2025
47

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,481
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lavi

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

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Sibling names for Lavi

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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