Lavonda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lavonda has been given to 3,586 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 126 recorded.
Babies named Lavonda, 2008
1 in 655,000
Lavonda over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lavonda?
Lavonda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 315,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lavonda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lavonda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lavondas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lavonda was born before 1968 — so the typical Lavonda is around 57 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 26.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,087
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (958).
Is Lavonda 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1968 (126)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.0% average annual change
Spellings of Lavonda
Lavonda is not the most common spelling — Latonya is, with 14.3% against Lavonda's 2.4%.
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 Lavonda is used
Across 1910–2025, Lavonda was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 74,933 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
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. Lavonda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lavonda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lavonda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lavonda
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lavonda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lavonda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.