Laverna

Where Laverna comes from

The dictionaries list Laverna as a given name — a female given name from Latin, probably a latinized version of the earlier and much more popular Laverne — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,025 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1919
    Peak, #634
    120 babies named Laverna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #888.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, probably a latinized version of the earlier and much more popular Laverne.
Namesakes

No widely known Laverna 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.