Lavanya

Where Lavanya comes from

From Sanskrit लावण्य (lāvaṇya, “beauty”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Lavanya
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #13,430 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2003
    Peak, #6,885
    16 babies named Lavanya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #14,179.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Namesakes

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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.