Meaning not yet researched.
Lavern: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #347 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #347 in 1924; #4,097 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lavern in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,097 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #347.
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Lavern: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #347 in 1924 · most boys in one year: 290 (1924).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Lavern, making it the 4,097th most common boys’ name of the year, up 54 places from #4,151 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 26 boys named Lavern in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #347, reached in 1924. That year also had the most boys given the name: 290. For comparison, it was #4,640 in 2015 and #609 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Lavern in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #594, reached in 1926. The most girls given the name in a single year was 186, in 1957. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,004 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lavern in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 17,081 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,949 babies named Lavern.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 263 US boys were named Lavern; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Laverne (56,124 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lavern 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 | — | — | 26 | #4,097 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,151 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,390 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,581 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,704 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,979 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,290 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,030 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,856 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,157 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,640 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,083 |
| 2013 | — | — | 25 | #4,019 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,400 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,596 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,594 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,782 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,212 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,308 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,452 | 24 | #4,059 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,139 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,201 |
| 2003 | — | — | 21 | #4,063 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,414 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,797 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,384 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,258 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,343 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,030 | 10 | #5,913 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,354 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,511 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,716 | 12 | #4,988 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,246 | 23 | #2,989 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,024 | 18 | #3,547 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,209 | 15 | #3,939 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,990 | 25 | #2,666 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,244 | 19 | #3,164 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,199 | 20 | #2,816 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,097 | 21 | #2,608 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,096 | 25 | #2,262 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,968 | 17 | #2,898 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,714 | 20 | #2,497 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,020 | 15 | #3,012 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,632 | 17 | #2,776 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,116 | 25 | #2,122 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,638 | 21 | #2,410 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,749 | 19 | #2,518 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,177 | 13 | #3,157 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,960 | 21 | #2,243 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,142 | 29 | #1,770 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,542 | 22 | #2,099 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,416 | 32 | #1,566 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,600 | 33 | #1,493 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,295 | 36 | #1,431 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,923 | 38 | #1,390 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,611 | 38 | #1,362 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,907 | 48 | #1,132 |
| 1968 | 57 | #1,513 | 48 | #1,077 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,310 | 49 | #1,055 |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,340 | 61 | #936 |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,267 | 54 | #1,009 |
| 1964 | 97 | #1,113 | 53 | #1,041 |
| 1963 | 113 | #1,003 | 56 | #1,014 |
| 1962 | 108 | #1,040 | 66 | #934 |
| 1961 | 116 | #1,008 | 72 | #909 |
| 1960 | 142 | #870 | 95 | #786 |
| 1959 | 162 | #806 | 68 | #935 |
| 1958 | 161 | #792 | 81 | #842 |
| 1957 | 186 | #735 | 90 | #790 |
| 1956 | 161 | #776 | 99 | #739 |
| 1955 | 176 | #713 | 109 | #702 |
| 1954 | 140 | #795 | 84 | #779 |
| 1953 | 102 | #938 | 103 | #700 |
| 1952 | 132 | #783 | 113 | #652 |
| 1951 | 95 | #955 | 86 | #757 |
| 1950 | 83 | #1,004 | 127 | #609 |
| 1949 | 93 | #921 | 120 | #622 |
| 1948 | 112 | #824 | 127 | #600 |
| 1947 | 122 | #784 | 126 | #608 |
| 1946 | 113 | #773 | 128 | #568 |
| 1945 | 112 | #704 | 120 | #547 |
| 1944 | 94 | #788 | 130 | #534 |
| 1943 | 80 | #875 | 148 | #510 |
| 1942 | 104 | #739 | 151 | #498 |
| 1941 | 95 | #726 | 155 | #474 |
| 1940 | 83 | #777 | 174 | #440 |
| 1939 | 73 | #806 | 170 | #436 |
| 1938 | 98 | #697 | 189 | #412 |
| 1937 | 87 | #725 | 203 | #386 |
| 1936 | 94 | #692 | 174 | #423 |
| 1935 | 112 | #616 | 209 | #377 |
| 1934 | 105 | #654 | 248 | #350 |
| 1933 | 105 | #643 | 227 | #361 |
| 1932 | 120 | #599 | 245 | #353 |
| 1931 | 104 | #651 | 251 | #348 |
| 1930 | 128 | #613 | 262 | #349 |
| 1929 | 118 | #640 | 252 | #353 |
| 1928 | 125 | #631 | 264 | #352 |
| 1927 | 142 | #597 | 274 | #354 |
| 1926 | 143 | #594 | 245 | #373 |
| 1925 | 127 | #655 | 256 | #371 |
| 1924 | 145 | #624 | 290 | #347 |
| 1923 | 131 | #645 | 287 | #348 |
| 1922 | 119 | #669 | 271 | #363 |
| 1921 | 140 | #621 | 253 | #381 |
| 1920 | 131 | #627 | 236 | #388 |
| 1919 | 112 | #662 | 219 | #397 |
| 1918 | 128 | #625 | 190 | #424 |
| 1917 | 100 | #688 | 154 | #458 |
| 1916 | 64 | #853 | 143 | #480 |
| 1915 | 68 | #801 | 135 | #478 |
| 1914 | 53 | #798 | 87 | #531 |
| 1913 | 34 | #918 | 67 | #528 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,275 | 54 | #547 |
| 1911 | 24 | #889 | 24 | #636 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,093 | 17 | #742 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,127 | 16 | #697 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,064 | 10 | #920 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,574 | 9 | #966 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #970 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,484 | 13 | #686 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,427 | 7 | #1,024 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,269 | 5 | #1,235 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,656 | 6 | #1,245 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #995 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,125 | 5 | #1,153 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,189 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #912 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #993 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #998 |
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).