Lavon
Feminine
Lavon is given to both — 6,246 girls and 5,113 boys since 1880. See Lavon as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Von was the busiest second element in a whole generation of American naming. LaVon, DeVon, YVon, Vonda, Yvonne and Lavonne all use it, and Lavon is the plainest of them — a prefix and the element, with nothing else attached. It goes mostly to boys, which is unusual in that family.
How old is the name Lavon?
Lavon first appears in US birth records in 1896 — 129 years ago. The typical Lavon alive today was born around 1937, making them about 88 years old. About 2,700 people named Lavon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lavon most popular?
Lavon peaked in 1934, reaching #536 nationally. See the whole 1934 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Lavon
What makes the -von family worth describing is how systematically it worked. Through the middle of the last century the element combined with La-, De-, Ra- and Sha- at the front and with -da, -ne and -ita at the back, generating dozens of names that were immediately recognizable as names and had never existed before. The plain forms — Lavon, Davon, Devon — went disproportionately to boys, and the elaborated ones to girls, which is a pattern rather than a rule but a fairly consistent one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The -von element has no meaning of its own. It appears to have been abstracted from Yvonne and Vonda, which do have histories — Yvonne descends from a Germanic word for the yew tree — but an element cut loose from a name does not carry the name's sense with it. The La- prefix contributes nothing either. So this is a name assembled from two components, and the honest answer is that no meaning can be given.
Pronouncing Lavon
luh-VON
luh-VON, two syllables, stress at the back, the first vowel almost swallowed. Some say LAY-von with the weight at the front, which keeps the prefix audible, and both readings are in use.
Nicknames for Lavon
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
- 1896
- Most girls named
- 1924152 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #536reached in 1934
- Change vs 2006
- 0.0%5 in 2011, from 5
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.
Lavons among us
people named Lavon 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
Lavon 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
- Von works as a short form and suits either child.
- Two syllables with the stress at the end, which balances a front-stressed surname.
- Every letter behaves as an English reader expects, so it is said right on first sight.
- Lavonne, LaVon and Levon are all in use, and the capital in the middle is a standing question.
- There is no documented meaning, which is worth deciding how to talk about in advance.
- The stress falls at either end depending on the speaker.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lavons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Lavon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lavon in 2025?
- Lavon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lavon with classmates?
- Lavon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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