Lavonia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lavonia has been given to 1,901 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1923, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Lavonia, 1994

1 in 619,000

Lavonia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lavonia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lavonia means

Lavonia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lavonia is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,901 girls were recorded with the name Lavonia between 1880 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1923; its best national rank was #885 in 1880.

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.

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How common is Lavonia?

Lavonia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994: 1 in 619,000; 6 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only: 1 in 297,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 429,287 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lavonia 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 1994 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 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lavonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lavonias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lavonia was born before 1942 — so the typical Lavonia is around 83 today.

Median birth year: 1942; About 83 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 15.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 18.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 765; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (289).

Is Lavonia 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1923 (37)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #885; 1880

Spellings of Lavonia

Lavonia is not the most common spelling — Latonya is, with 18.5% against Lavonia's 1.6%.

Latonya18.5%21,757
Ladonna18.1%21,233
Lavonne14.0%16,443
Lavina5.8%6,781
Lavon5.3%6,246
Lavinia4.8%5,660
Latonia4.3%5,104
Luvenia3.3%3,932

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 Lavonia is used

Across 1910–2025, Lavonia was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 154,160 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in 25,000
2Alabama1 in 100,000
3Florida1 in —
4North Carolina1 in —
5New York1 in —
6South Carolina1 in —
7Texas1 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. Lavonia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lavonia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #885; 1880
Peak year: 1923; 37 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 1,901
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lavonia

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

Lavinia Lavenia Lavender Lavania Lavena Lavonna Lavelle Laverda Lavetta Lavette Milania Melania Lavonda Laverna Lavanya Lavina Lavona Laveah Jesenia Laveta Natania Thania Lavera Stefania

Sibling names for Lavonia

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

For a sister

Filomena Novella Aletha Dorcas Vernice Albertha Bethel Rosina

For a brother

Elwin Rubin Bertram Alvis Eldridge Trinidad Hobert Harland

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