Meaning not yet researched.
Lavender: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 220 in 2025. Its best rank was #993 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #993 in 2024; #1,095 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lavender in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,095 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #993.
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Lavender: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 220 girls in 2025. Peak: #993 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 261 (2024).
In 2025, 220 US girls were named Lavender, making it the 1,095th most common girls’ name of the year, down 102 places from #993 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 261 girls named Lavender in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #993, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 261. For comparison, it was #2,868 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lavender in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 2,323 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,185 babies named Lavender.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,572 US girls were named Lavender; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 261. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,306 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lavender ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #499 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lavynder and Lavander 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: Lavynder (17), Lavander (15).
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 Lavender in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 12 | #499 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #567 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #634 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #654 | — |
| Ohio | 15 | #658 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #695 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #713 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #865 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #929 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #957 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #993 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,069 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,206 | #2,415 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,232 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,438 | #2,756 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,525 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,622 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,754 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 220 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 2024 | 261 | #993 | — | — |
| 2023 | 204 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,197 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,716 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,754 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,323 | — | — |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,013 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,943 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,244 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,323 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,795 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,715 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,331 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,866 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,342 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,952 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,355 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,897 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,292 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,363 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,196 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,317 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,746 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,457 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,091 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,520 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,779 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,098 | — | — |
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).