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