Lavar
Last seen for girls in 1980 at #10,392 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 279 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,075since 1915
Lavar over time
Rank among boys' names. Lavar has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,166 | 9 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2019 | — | #8,889 | 8 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,770 | 15 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,546 | 10 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,066 | 11 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,485 | 16 | |
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,646 | 29 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,444 | 31 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,153 | 34 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,710 | 25 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,014 | 33 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,755 | 34 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,988 | 30 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,864 | 31 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,865 | 29 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,926 | 27 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,261 | 22 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,854 | 16 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,469 | 19 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,214 | 32 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,793 | 42 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,790 | 38 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,218 | 63 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,588 | 41 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,354 | 51 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,349 | 49 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,516 | 40 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,179 | 61 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,029 | 78 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #836 | 111 |
| 1979 | — | #708 | 147 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #631 | 174 |
| 1977 | — | #485 | 279 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
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| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,368 | 10 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,465 | 10 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,003 | 14 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,444 | 11 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,980 | 8 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lavar! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Lavar is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#375 · 1 in 4,321
- South Carolina#392 · 1 in 3,519
- Illinois#535 · 1 in 7,053
- Pennsylvania#544 · 1 in 11,058
- Louisiana#609 · 1 in 7,332
Best ever in a state: #148 in Idaho, 1931.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #375 | 8 | 1 in 4,321 |
| South Carolina | #392 | 6 | 1 in 3,519 |
| Illinois | #535 | 12 | 1 in 7,053 |
| Pennsylvania | #544 | 7 | 1 in 11,058 |
| Louisiana | #609 | 5 | 1 in 7,332 |
| New York | #1,095 | 5 | 1 in 22,708 |
| California | #1,505 | 5 | 1 in 40,176 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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| Arizona | — | — | — |
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| Colorado | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lavar
- 2,212 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #9,714)
- 2,648 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 5,102 spots in 1977 (#5,587 → #485)
- Biggest drop: 193 spots in 1981 (#836 → #1,029)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1977 at #485 (279 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1977–1980
- Highest: 1 in 5,890 boys born in 1977 were named Lavar (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.2% of all boys named Lavar (605) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | #3,217 (1917) | #3,572 |
| 1920s | 58 | #2,801 (1922) | #3,409 |
| 1930s | 82 | #2,003 (1931) | #2,602 |
| 1940s | 12 | #2,862 (1944) | #3,298 |
| 1950s | 18 | #3,095 (1952) | #3,484 |
| 1960s | 10 | #3,930 (1965) | #3,939 |
| 1970s | 605 | #485 (1977) | #1,853 |
| 1980s | 574 | #836 (1980) | #1,365 |
| 1990s | 223 | #2,214 (1990) | #3,198 |
| 2000s | 302 | #2,674 (2003) | #3,335 |
| 2010s | 136 | #4,822 (2011) | #6,539 |
| 2020s | 31 | #7,502 (2020) | #9,428 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lavar in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 22,964 of them was named Lavar, which outranked 85.9% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,024Jairo79
- #1,024Leigh79
- #1,024Shay79
- #1,029Lavar78
- #1,029Ashton78
- #1,029Germaine78
- #1,029Norris78
- #1,037Armand77
- #1,037Emil77
- #1,037Lars77
Tied with 7 names at #1,029; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.