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Lavina

#2,978 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lavinia

Lavina has been given to 6,781 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,978 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 157 recorded.

Babies named Lavina, 2025

1 in 59,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lavina: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lavinia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lavina means

Lavina is a variant of Lavinia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lavinia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,781 girls were recorded with the name Lavina between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 157 in 1920; its best national rank was #349 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,826 in 2020 to #2,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,890 in 2015 to #2,978 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.

How common is Lavina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,978
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lavina 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lavina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lavinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lavina was born before 1931 — so the typical Lavina is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,278
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1920s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (1,178).

Is Lavina 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
+1,359
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,848
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+912
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 1920 (157)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#349
1885

Spellings of Lavina

Lavina is not the most common spelling — Karina is, with 9.1% against Lavina's 1.00%.

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 Lavina is used

Across 1910–2025, Lavina was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 41,140 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 7,692
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 10,000
  3. 3Kansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  5. 5Iowa1 in 20,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 25,000
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 25,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 25,000

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. Lavina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lavina around the world

Where Lavina 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–1991
    #300
    in 1991
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,373
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1951–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Lavina

People whose public names include Lavina, 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.

Lavina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,848
Best rank ever
#349
1885
Peak year
1920
157 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,781
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Lavina

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

LaviniaLavernSalinaRominaSerinaSabinaRosinaAlbinaSarinaLavadaMalinaAlvinaKalinaLavenaDavinaShainaBettinaEvelinaEdwinaLavonAdinaJaninaElinaCorina

Names with a curve like Lavina

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

UnaRayRosinaLovieOnaAlvaNovellaLeonoraIdellaEulaliaEldaTressie

Sibling names for Lavina

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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