Lavonne
Feminine · “yew”
Lavonne is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 16,443 girls against 217 boys since 1880.
Lavonne joins the American La- prefix to Yvonne, a French name built on a Germanic word for the yew tree — the wood every medieval longbow was made from.
How old is the name Lavonne?
Lavonne first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Lavonne alive today was born around 1941, making them about 84 years old. About 8,300 people named Lavonne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lavonne most popular?
Lavonne peaked in 1935, reaching #274 nationally. See the whole 1935 chart.
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Where it comes from
From iv to Lavonne
The story of Lavonne
Yves was a Breton and French name, carried by a thirteenth-century lawyer-saint who became the patron of Brittany, and Yvonne is its feminine. American naming of the mid-twentieth century used prefixes and endings as interchangeable parts, and La- attached to Vonne gave Lavonne, LaVonne and Lavon. It appears in the registers from the 1920s and peaked in the mid-1940s.
Meaning
yew
Through Yvonne, from the Germanic iv, 'yew', which French took as Yves and made feminine as Yvonne. The yew was the bow-wood of medieval Europe, so a name built on it carried a martial sense. The La- prefix is an American naming marker and carries no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- iv
- Yves
- Yvonne
- Lavonne
Related forms: Yvonne · LaVonne · Lavon
Pronouncing Lavonne
luh-VON
Two syllables, stress on the second. Some families capitalize the V — LaVonne — which marks the prefix on the page without changing the sound.
Nicknames for Lavonne
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
- 1900
- Most girls named
- 1935487 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #274reached in 1935
- Change vs 2015
- +12.5%9 in 2019, from 8
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.
Lavonne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yvonne in French — related form
- LaVonne in English — spelling variant
- Lavon in English — related form
Lavonnes among us
people named Lavonne 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
Lavonne has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Yvonne behind it has a documented French and Breton history and a concrete meaning.
- The end stress gives it a distinct rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- Vonnie is a ready-made short form with its own record.
- The internal capital is a genuine choice between two established spellings.
- It is firmly period-coded to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lavonnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,300 people named Lavonne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lavonne in 2025?
- Lavonne is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lavonne with classmates?
- Lavonne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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