How Many People Are Named Lavern?
people named Lavern are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 52,493 people in the US has this name
Based on 17,081 babies named Lavern in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
435 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of LAVERNE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Lavern in English. Counting Lavern and these spellings together, about 23,729 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Lavern, 49.5% were girls and 50.5% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Lavern fell from 52.9% in the 1900s to 0% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lavern alive today is about 62 years old, and 68% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 55 and 77 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lavern first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1924, to 435 babies. In 2025, 26 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Lavern has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #347, in 1924. In 2025 it ranked #4,096. Among girls, its best rank was #594, in 1926.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,096 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #347 (1924) | #594 (1926) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #366 in the 1920s | #824 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lavern alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lavern were born in Michigan than in any other state: about 238 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lavern was given 7.6 times as often in Nebraska, 4.7 times in Wisconsin and 4.6 times in Iowa.
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