# Lavern (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lavern/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,081 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,236 / 6,845 (40% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Variant of Laverne.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 10 | 6,632 |
| 1983 | 14 | 5,020 |
| 1984 | 12 | 5,714 |
| 1985 | 8 | 7,968 |
| 1986 | 15 | 5,096 |
| 1987 | 10 | 7,097 |
| 1988 | 16 | 5,199 |
| 1989 | 11 | 7,244 |
| 1990 | 15 | 5,990 |
| 1991 | 12 | 7,209 |
| 1992 | 8 | 10,024 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,246 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,716 |
| 1997 | 6 | 13,030 |
| 2006 | 7 | 14,452 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 4,596 |
| 2012 | 17 | 5,400 |
| 2013 | 25 | 4,019 |
| 2014 | 25 | 4,083 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,640 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4,157 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,856 |
| 2018 | 19 | 5,030 |
| 2019 | 24 | 4,290 |
| 2020 | 26 | 3,979 |
| 2021 | 30 | 3,704 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3,581 |
| 2023 | 35 | 3,390 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,151 |
| 2025 | 26 | 4,097 |

## People named Lavern

- Alan Bean, American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.