Lavona
Feminine
Three lengths of one name are in the record and this is the middle one. Lavona has three syllables, Lavonna has three with a doubled consonant, and Lavonia has four — all built on the same detached fragment of a French name, and all counted separately by a system that reads letters.
How old is the name Lavona?
Lavona first appears in US birth records in 1902 — 123 years ago. The typical Lavona alive today was born around 1935, making them about 90 years old. About 700 people named Lavona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lavona most popular?
Lavona peaked in 1934, reaching #955 nationally. See the whole 1934 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yvonne to Lavona
The story of Lavona
The tree at the end of that French chain outlives everything around it. Yews grow slowly, hollow out from the center so that ordinary ring-counting fails, and several in British churchyards are credibly older than the buildings beside them — some are thought to predate Christianity in those islands entirely, which would mean the churches were built beside the trees rather than the other way round. The wood is dense and springy and made longbows; every part of the plant is poisonous. A tree that kills, endures and arms an army is a strange thing to find at the far end of a name.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The prefix carries no sense and the element behind it is a piece of a name rather than a word. Nothing translatable comes through, whatever the French appearance suggests.
How the name formed
- Yvonne
- Vona
- Lavona
Pronouncing Lavona
luh-VOH-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The prefix is unstressed and reduces, which is why the name is often heard as Vona alone.
Nicknames for Lavona
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
- 1902
- Most girls named
- 193051 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #955reached in 1934
- Change vs 1994
- 0.0%5 in 2018, 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.
Lavonas among us
people named Lavona 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
Lavona 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
- Vona sits inside it as a complete and independent short form.
- The rhythm is even and the spelling follows the sound exactly.
- It is uncommon while containing no unfamiliar sound.
- Two other lengths of the same name are in use and get substituted.
- There is no meaning to pass on, whatever other pages claim.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lavonas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Lavona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lavona in 2025?
- Lavona is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lavona with classmates?
- Lavona will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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