Lavera
Feminine · “faith”
Vera is claimed by two languages that have nothing to do with each other. Russian says it is the word for faith; Latin says it is the word for true. Both are right about their own language, both names exist, and English has been unable to tell them apart for a century.
How old is the name Lavera?
Lavera first appears in US birth records in 1895 — 130 years ago. The typical Lavera alive today was born around 1931, making them about 94 years old. About 1,000 people named Lavera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lavera most popular?
Lavera peaked in 1916, reaching #848 nationally. See the whole 1916 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Vera to Lavera
The story of Lavera
The Russian trio is real and old: Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov — faith, hope and love — named after three sisters in an early Christian legend and given together in Russian families for centuries. The Latin reading arrived separately in English through the general nineteenth-century taste for virtue names. Lavera is what happens next: an American front syllable attached to a name that already had two competing origins, producing something with three possible stories and no way to choose. The record has it from the eighteen-nineties, which is early for the pattern.
Meaningscholars disagree
faith, or true
The Russian Vera is the ordinary noun for faith, one of a set of three sister names with Hope and Love. The Latin verus means true. English took both and merged them, and the front syllable added here carries nothing.
How the name formed
- Vera
- Lavera
Related forms: Vera · Vera
Pronouncing Lavera
luh-VAIR-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. Russian says the base VYEH-rah, with a glide the English form loses.
Nicknames for Lavera
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1895
- Most girls named
- 192274 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #848reached in 1916
- Change vs 2018
- 0.0%6 in 2023, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lavera in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Vera in Russian — related form
- Vera in Italian — related form
Laveras among us
people named Lavera are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lavera sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every sound in it is easy and the spelling follows the sound.
- Vera works as a short form and is a full name in three languages.
- The stress in the middle gives it a lift most English names of its length do not have.
- Lavera, Lavere and Lavarah are all in the record and will be confused.
- The name it is built on has two competing origins, so the meaning depends on the family.
- It reads clearly as a name of the turn of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Laveras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Lavera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lavera in 2025?
- Lavera is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lavera with classmates?
- Lavera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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