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Lavinia

#2,290 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Lavinia has been given to 5,660 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,290 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Lavinia, 2025

1 in 41,400

Lavinia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lavinia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Latin

What Lavinia means

Lavinia is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Latin Lavinia, of obscure meaning. Lavinium was a town in ancient Latium.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lavinia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lavinia is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Lavinia comes through Latin Lavinia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Lavinia is pronounced /laˈvi.nja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,660 girls were recorded with the name Lavinia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 93 in 1921; its best national rank was #360 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,765 in 2020 to #2,290 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,795 in 2015 to #2,290 in 2025.

How common is Lavinia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,290
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lavinia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lavinia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lavinias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lavinia was born before 1948 — so the typical Lavinia is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,775
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1920s — 13.1% of all recorded uses (740).

Is Lavinia 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
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+475
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+505
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.0%
Peak was 1921 (93)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#360
1880

Spellings of Lavinia

Lavinia is not the most common spelling — Davina is, with 18.0% against Lavinia's 9.0%.

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 Lavinia is used

Across 2016–2025, Lavinia was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 27,236 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

127 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,704
  2. 2Utah1 in 14,286
  3. 3New York1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 33,333
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Lavinia around the world

Where Lavinia 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
    1996–2025
    #1,166
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2009
    #419
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    1966–2024
    #556
    in 2024
  • France
    1931–2025
    #1,420
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lavinia

People whose public names include Lavinia, 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.

Lavinia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lavinia. Linked forms have their own page here.

Lawinia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lavinia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,290
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 475
Best rank ever
#360
1880
Peak year
1921
93 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,660
Count in 2025
80

Names similar to Lavinia

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

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Names with a curve like Lavinia

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

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Sibling names for Lavinia

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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