Lavon

Where Lavon comes from

Lavon 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.

Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,292 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #536
    146 babies named Lavon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1949
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,154.
  4. 1958
    Lavon Heidemann born
    American politician
  5. 1977
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lavon Heidemann · American politician, born 1958
  • LaVon Bracy · politician in Florida

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.