Lavern

Where Lavern comes from

Variant of Laverne.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lavern
  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1924
    Peak, #346
    290 babies named Lavern — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #531.
  4. 1978
    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
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Lavern turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.