Lavinia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lavinia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Latin name of uncertain origin, famously borne in Roman legend.
- RORomania≈1 in 868(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1K
- USUnited States1 in 102K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 868 (inferred from the name graph)
99,613 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin name of uncertain origin, famously borne in Roman legend.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lavinia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
99,613 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lavinia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Name, according to Roman mythology, of the wife of Aeneas, and thus the mother of the Roman people. Legend had it that she gave her name to the Latin town of Lavinium, but in fact she was almost certainly invented to explain the place name, which is of pre-Roman origin. She was said to be the daughter of King Latinus, who was similarly invented to account for the name of Latium.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, The daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, wife of Aeneas; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Origine latine; signifie « originaire du Lavinium ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Latin: Roman name, likely from Lavinium
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lavinia Fontanab. 1552ITItalian painter (1552–1614)
- Lavinia Spencer, Countess Spencerb. 1762IEBritish illustrator (1762–1831)
- Adele Schopenhauerb. 1797DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer (1797-1849)
- Caroline Harrisonb. 1832USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892
- Vinnie Reamb. 1847USnot in their usual nameAmerican sculptor (1847–1914)
- Ava Gardnerb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1922–1990)
- Lady Sarah McCorquodaleb. 1955GBnot in their usual namenoblewoman; eldest sister of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Lavinia Miloșovicib. 1976RORomanian artistic gymnast and model (born 1976)
- Lavinia Wilsonb. 1980DEGerman actress
- Lavinia Longhib. 1980ITItalian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 100K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 99K | #323 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29K | #1,130 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 27K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,328 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2.1K | #260 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 944 | #40 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 531 | #323 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 332 | #3,658 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 143 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 80 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #5,328 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lavinia mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin name of uncertain origin, famously borne in Roman legend. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Lavinia?
- In the etymology graph, Lavina, Vinnie and Lavena are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Lavinia a male or female name?
- Lavinia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lavinia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Lavinia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavinia.
- How common is the name Lavinia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99,613 people named Lavinia in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Lavinia compared with other names?
- In Romania, Lavinia is the 543rd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laviniaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lavinia” — the 543rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.