Meaning not yet researched.
Laverne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #165 in 1928.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #165 in 1928; #10,542 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laverne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,542 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1928, at #165.
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Laverne: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #165 in 1928 · most girls in one year: 1,383 (1924).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Laverne, making it the 10,542nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #165, reached in 1928. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,383, in 1924. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #316 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Laverne in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #274, reached in 1927. The most boys given the name in a single year was 428, in 1928. For comparison, it was #7,819 in 2015 and #629 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laverne in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 13 babies. In all, 56,124 US babies have been given the name, 76% of them girls and 24% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 16,669 babies named Laverne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9 US girls were named Laverne; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lavern (17,081 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lavorn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Verna and Vernon.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lavorn (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,542 | — | — |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,706 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,744 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #13,525 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,570 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,459 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,380 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #11,581 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,819 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,526 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,262 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,405 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,324 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #13,660 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,963 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,200 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,050 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,540 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,227 | 5 | #11,998 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,139 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,621 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,175 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,887 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,685 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,082 | 8 | #7,003 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,797 | 7 | #7,637 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,650 | 7 | #7,463 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,903 | 10 | #5,719 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,872 | 5 | #9,580 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,179 | 8 | #6,454 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,821 | 5 | #9,031 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,182 | 10 | #5,226 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,772 | 8 | #5,977 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,580 | 8 | #5,504 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,784 | 10 | #4,437 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,097 | 8 | #5,135 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,927 | 14 | #3,321 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,285 | 9 | #4,408 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,107 | 9 | #4,346 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,236 | 10 | #4,111 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,591 | 13 | #3,332 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,912 | 22 | #2,331 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,288 | 16 | #2,851 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,904 | 18 | #2,529 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,391 | 20 | #2,321 |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,257 | 23 | #2,089 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,360 | 18 | #2,409 |
| 1974 | 86 | #1,264 | 30 | #1,640 |
| 1973 | 101 | #1,113 | 25 | #1,802 |
| 1972 | 113 | #1,034 | 29 | #1,622 |
| 1971 | 154 | #874 | 25 | #1,809 |
| 1970 | 161 | #841 | 40 | #1,324 |
| 1969 | 163 | #808 | 46 | #1,160 |
| 1968 | 219 | #657 | 44 | #1,138 |
| 1967 | 216 | #653 | 43 | #1,143 |
| 1966 | 282 | #567 | 50 | #1,039 |
| 1965 | 291 | #558 | 50 | #1,049 |
| 1964 | 338 | #535 | 52 | #1,051 |
| 1963 | 403 | #481 | 66 | #927 |
| 1962 | 410 | #479 | 61 | #979 |
| 1961 | 451 | #460 | 70 | #913 |
| 1960 | 498 | #438 | 79 | #859 |
| 1959 | 538 | #406 | 71 | #912 |
| 1958 | 526 | #404 | 60 | #987 |
| 1957 | 601 | #370 | 85 | #821 |
| 1956 | 594 | #358 | 85 | #813 |
| 1955 | 653 | #333 | 101 | #727 |
| 1954 | 511 | #381 | 107 | #702 |
| 1953 | 536 | #367 | 111 | #681 |
| 1952 | 588 | #340 | 106 | #675 |
| 1951 | 622 | #316 | 123 | #638 |
| 1950 | 603 | #316 | 120 | #629 |
| 1949 | 605 | #317 | 112 | #646 |
| 1948 | 661 | #297 | 148 | #550 |
| 1947 | 603 | #316 | 177 | #507 |
| 1946 | 609 | #295 | 170 | #496 |
| 1945 | 598 | #284 | 159 | #473 |
| 1944 | 517 | #295 | 192 | #441 |
| 1943 | 536 | #300 | 212 | #428 |
| 1942 | 588 | #281 | 220 | #414 |
| 1941 | 565 | #269 | 241 | #373 |
| 1940 | 579 | #259 | 231 | #377 |
| 1939 | 615 | #253 | 199 | #404 |
| 1938 | 639 | #252 | 285 | #330 |
| 1937 | 692 | #235 | 305 | #304 |
| 1936 | 711 | #230 | 276 | #326 |
| 1935 | 785 | #217 | 300 | #314 |
| 1934 | 820 | #217 | 323 | #302 |
| 1933 | 862 | #202 | 299 | #311 |
| 1932 | 927 | #199 | 366 | #285 |
| 1931 | 1,042 | #176 | 395 | #278 |
| 1930 | 1,096 | #178 | 402 | #283 |
| 1929 | 1,194 | #170 | 368 | #291 |
| 1928 | 1,293 | #165 | 428 | #275 |
| 1927 | 1,333 | #166 | 421 | #274 |
| 1926 | 1,327 | #169 | 399 | #287 |
| 1925 | 1,335 | #170 | 401 | #285 |
| 1924 | 1,383 | #169 | 402 | #288 |
| 1923 | 1,306 | #172 | 414 | #278 |
| 1922 | 1,214 | #181 | 414 | #277 |
| 1921 | 1,163 | #185 | 405 | #276 |
| 1920 | 1,094 | #188 | 375 | #289 |
| 1919 | 944 | #198 | 337 | #294 |
| 1918 | 965 | #199 | 343 | #299 |
| 1917 | 762 | #222 | 275 | #328 |
| 1916 | 642 | #245 | 243 | #344 |
| 1915 | 564 | #250 | 231 | #353 |
| 1914 | 379 | #266 | 162 | #371 |
| 1913 | 288 | #277 | 119 | #390 |
| 1912 | 225 | #299 | 79 | #443 |
| 1911 | 136 | #340 | 45 | #434 |
| 1910 | 134 | #340 | 26 | #562 |
| 1909 | 100 | #365 | 25 | #526 |
| 1908 | 91 | #379 | 23 | #531 |
| 1907 | 58 | #468 | 25 | #468 |
| 1906 | 73 | #402 | 16 | #604 |
| 1905 | 53 | #468 | 24 | #457 |
| 1904 | 47 | #481 | 14 | #633 |
| 1903 | 41 | #500 | 10 | #758 |
| 1902 | 37 | #531 | 12 | #672 |
| 1901 | 42 | #460 | 8 | #817 |
| 1900 | 39 | #549 | 11 | #821 |
| 1899 | 26 | #612 | — | — |
| 1898 | 26 | #644 | 10 | #724 |
| 1897 | 24 | #635 | 8 | #828 |
| 1896 | 26 | #615 | 9 | #802 |
| 1895 | 20 | #712 | 6 | #1,035 |
| 1894 | 15 | #804 | 6 | #1,025 |
| 1893 | 10 | #995 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #880 | 6 | #1,027 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #980 | 7 | #849 |
| 1889 | 8 | #992 | 7 | #851 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,383 | 7 | #876 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #879 | 6 | #885 |
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).