Lavina

Where Lavina comes from

Lavina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #348
    33 babies named Lavina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    Lavina Fielding Anderson born
    Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist
  4. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,857.
  5. 1993
    Lavina Martins born
    badminton player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lavina Martins · badminton player, born 1993
  • Lavina Fielding Anderson · Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist, 1944–2023

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.