Lavender

Where Lavender comes from

The dictionaries list Lavender as a given name — a female given name from English — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #6,578 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Lavender Cheung born
    Hong Kong television presenter
  3. 2024
    Peak, #990
    261 babies named Lavender — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Lavender Cheung · Hong Kong television presenter, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.