Lavinia

Where Lavinia comes from

Latin Lavinia, of obscure meaning. Lavinium was a town in ancient Latium.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lavinia
  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1552
    Lavinia Fontana born
    Italian painter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #352 among girls with 21 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1976
    Lavinia Miloșovici born
    Romanian artistic gymnast and model
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin used since the 17th century. It was fairly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but rare today.
Namesakes
  • Lavinia Fontana · Italian painter, 1552–1614
  • Lavinia Miloșovici · Romanian artistic gymnast and model, born 1976
  • Lavinia Agache · Romanian gymnast, born 1968
  • Lavinia Wilson · German actress, born 1980
  • Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan · Soviet- Armenian painter, 1922–2005

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.