# Lavon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lavon/  
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 | 11,359 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,113 / 6,246 (55% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 13 | 6,367 |
| 1990 | 18 | 5,183 |
| 1991 | 24 | 4,285 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,457 |
| 1993 | 11 | 7,817 |
| 1994 | 7 | 11,228 |
| 1995 | 7 | 11,207 |
| 1996 | 14 | 6,580 |
| 1998 | 8 | 10,686 |
| 2000 | 7 | 12,562 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,977 |
| 2004 | 5 | 17,642 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,826 |
| 2009 | 5 | 18,938 |
| 2011 | 5 | 18,369 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 50 | 2,493 |
| 2012 | 71 | 1,999 |
| 2013 | 66 | 2,058 |
| 2014 | 46 | 2,647 |
| 2015 | 58 | 2,289 |
| 2016 | 49 | 2,577 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,699 |
| 2018 | 58 | 2,318 |
| 2019 | 52 | 2,540 |
| 2020 | 46 | 2,711 |
| 2021 | 64 | 2,207 |
| 2022 | 66 | 2,209 |
| 2023 | 42 | 2,981 |
| 2024 | 36 | 3,312 |
| 2025 | 43 | 2,910 |

## People named Lavon

- Larry Linville, American actor (1939–2000)
- Chico Freeman, American saxophonist
- Von Freeman, American jazz saxophonist (1923–2012)

## 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.