In 2025, 56 US girls were named Lavina, making it the 2,978th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,360 places from #4,338 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 33 girls named Lavina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #349, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 157, in 1920. For comparison, it was #3,891 in 2015 and #1,399 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lavina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 6,781 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,178 babies named Lavina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US girls were named Lavina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lavina ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,319 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lavonna, Lavona and Lavena are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ina, Vina and Viney.