Recorded 1885–2025 · United States
Laverne was most popular in 1924, when 1,785 American babies were given the name — ranking #250 that year. In 2025 it ranked #17,163, with 9 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 56,124 people named Laverne.
Laverne first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1885, which makes it about 140 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 136 of the 141 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 56,124 American births named Laverne between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 17,513 are estimated to be alive today.
9 American babies were named Laverne in 2025, ranking #17,163 that year.
Laverne is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Laverne is a unisex name — 76.4% of the 56,124 Americans given it were girls and 23.6% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 14% girls and 86% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 17,513 Americans named Laverne are alive today — 31% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 73 years old, and half are between 65 and 82.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org