Girl

Lavinia

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,290
80 girls
2015
#2,795
rank
1950
#1,486
rank

Lavinia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #360 in 1880.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #360 in 1880; #2,290 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lavinia in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,290 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #360.

Babies in 2025
80
Since 1880
5,660
Years on record
146

Babies named Lavinia, every year since 1880

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Girls

Lavinia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 girls in 2025. Peak: #360 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 93 (1921).

About the name Lavinia

In 2025, 80 US girls were named Lavinia, making it the 2,290th most common girls’ name of the year, down 143 places from #2,147 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 89 girls named Lavinia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #360, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 93, in 1921. For comparison, it was #2,795 in 2015 and #1,486 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Lavinia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 5,660 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 740 babies named Lavinia.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 735 US girls were named Lavinia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Lavinia ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #595 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lavonia, Lavenia and Lavanya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ina, Vina and Viney.

Meaning

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.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Lavonia (1,901), Lavenia (1,691), Lavanya (261), Lavonya (251), Lavania (54), Lavonnia (11), Lavani (6), Lavinnia (5), Lauvenia (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.

Nicknames

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Lavinia by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Massachusetts9#595#906
Virginia6#1,123—
Florida5#2,340—
California6#2,947#1,779
Texas6#3,140—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202580#2,290——
202489#2,147——
202378#2,349——
202289#2,151——
202169#2,546——
202060#2,765——
201966#2,641——
201862#2,769——
201767#2,624——
201675#2,453——
201563#2,795——
201454#3,100——
201371#2,521——
201254#3,120——
201139#3,879——
201035#4,261——
200934#4,429——
200828#5,217——
200736#4,262——
200623#5,835——
200528#4,779——
200433#4,234——
200320#5,944——
200223#5,192——
200122#5,294——
200017#6,364——
199921#5,136——
199815#6,561——
199712#7,542——
199615#6,238——
199518#5,338——
199416#5,876——
199314#6,456——
199219#5,168——
199121#4,733——
199020#4,790——
198917#5,173——
198815#5,477——
198722#3,928——
198620#4,122——
198523#3,674——
198424#3,470——
198321#3,754——
198215#4,831——
198119#4,088——
198021#3,781——
197932#2,769——
197833#2,603——
197727#2,961——
197638#2,231——
197534#2,385——
197433#2,370——
197351#1,745——
197236#2,157——
197132#2,403——
197034#2,286——
196942#1,945——
196832#2,147——
196742#1,799——
196646#1,658——
196540#1,822——
196442#1,821——
196340#1,852——
196235#1,967——
196126#2,390——
196035#1,939——
195933#1,970——
195830#2,049——
195748#1,564——
195635#1,817——
195525#2,193——
195450#1,430——
195337#1,633——
195233#1,730——
195132#1,718——
195039#1,486——
194933#1,645——
194847#1,352——
194736#1,593——
194645#1,299——
194531#1,466——
194429#1,530——
194320#1,972——
194239#1,291——
194134#1,327——
194036#1,232——
193927#1,449——
193836#1,223——
193726#1,478——
193635#1,219——
193544#1,046——
193436#1,199——
193338#1,152——
193247#1,038——
193148#1,017——
193045#1,109——
192960#925——
192863#939——
192770#896——
192659#976——
192566#918——
192466#937——
192389#776——
192282#805——
192193#759——
192092#758——
191982#784——
191886#772——
191775#799——
191678#777——
191567#804——
191463#724——
191346#777——
191229#950——
191124#890——
191028#823——
190933#698——
190833#674——
190732#673——
190626#723——
190524#751——
190433#593——
190325#673——
190234#565——
190129#584——
190041#527——
189925#622——
189836#524——
189726#603——
189629#572——
189532#526——
189434#488——
189327#540——
189237#445——
189127#501——
189027#503——
188933#424——
188822#540——
188720#503——
188635#362——
188522#452——
188420#457——
188320#427——
188218#439——
188114#459——
188021#360——

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).