Lavonda
Feminine
Lavonda is older than its family is usually said to be. The names with this detachable front are commonly dated to the nineteen-sixties and seventies; this one was already in the American record in the nineteen-twenties, four decades before the pattern is supposed to have started.
How old is the name Lavonda?
Lavonda first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Lavonda alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 3,100 people named Lavonda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lavonda most popular?
Lavonda peaked in 1968, reaching #920 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Vonda to Lavonda
The story of Lavonda
The story usually told about names beginning with La- is that they are a product of the civil rights era and the decades after it, and for a great many of them that is right. Lavonda is one of the exceptions that shows the habit was there earlier. It charts in the American record from the nineteen-twenties, rises slowly for half a century, and peaks in the late nineteen-sixties, which makes it a name that was waiting for the wave rather than made by it. The front it carries looks French — la is a real article, and the American spelling often capitalizes the V as though it were a surname — but no French word lies behind the rest of the name.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning attaches. The front is a syllable borrowed from French and Spanish surnames where it is a real word, and the back is an ending shared with a large group of American names; neither carries a sense here.
How the name formed
- Vonda
- Lavonda
Pronouncing Lavonda
luh-VON-duh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first is reduced almost to nothing, which is why it can be written la, le or lu without changing the sound.
Nicknames for Lavonda
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
- 1921
- Most girls named
- 1968126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #920reached in 1968
- Change vs 2001
- 0.0%6 in 2008, 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.
Lavondas among us
people named Lavonda 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
Lavonda 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
- The stress in the middle gives it a lift that most English names of its length do not have.
- Every sound in it is easy and the spelling follows the sound.
- Vonda works as a short form and stands alone as a name.
- Lavonda, Lavonne, Lavanda and Levonda are near neighbors and are confused constantly.
- There is no meaning to pass on; the name begins with the family that built it.
- The French-looking front will invite questions it cannot answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lavondas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Lavonda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lavonda in 2025?
- Lavonda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lavonda with classmates?
- Lavonda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More L names
The most-given names starting with L, all years combined.
Linda#902 · Lisa#987 · Laura#379 · Lauren#401 · Lillian#57 · Lori#1721 · Louise#514 · Lois#1666
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