Meaning not yet researched.
Lavar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #486 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #486 in 1977; #10,268 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lavar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,268 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #486.
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Lavar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #486 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 279 (1977).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Lavar, making it the 10,268th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #486, reached in 1977. That year also had the most boys given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #7,347 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lavar in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 2,086 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 611 babies named Lavar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 80 US boys were named Lavar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Lavere, Lavarr and Lavor are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lavere (434), Lavarr (55), Lavor (48), Laver (6), Lavare (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lavar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,268 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #13,524 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,563 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,847 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,393 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,936 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,905 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,684 |
| 2015 | — | — | 11 | #7,347 |
| 2014 | — | — | 16 | #5,615 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,292 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,961 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,923 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,921 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,227 |
| 2008 | — | — | 29 | #3,696 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,485 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,194 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,780 |
| 2004 | — | — | 33 | #3,052 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,710 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,797 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,032 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,898 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,910 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,982 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,312 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,492 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,979 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,540 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,945 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,410 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,884 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,243 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,817 |
| 1988 | — | — | 38 | #1,806 |
| 1987 | — | — | 63 | #1,227 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,609 |
| 1985 | — | — | 51 | #1,366 |
| 1984 | — | — | 49 | #1,358 |
| 1983 | — | — | 40 | #1,523 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,185 |
| 1981 | — | — | 78 | #1,031 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,315 | 111 | #840 |
| 1979 | — | — | 147 | #710 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,175 | 174 | #632 |
| 1977 | — | — | 279 | #486 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,107 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,281 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,223 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,753 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,250 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,023 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,001 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,995 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,352 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,750 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,630 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,153 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,458 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,551 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,055 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,536 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,555 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,523 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,982 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,691 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,664 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,916 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,367 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,959 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,409 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,709 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,134 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).