Lavender is a female first name.
Lavender is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,797 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,796 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lavender.
In fact, the name Lavender did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Lavender seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,153, 188 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Lavender, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lavender was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Lavender, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to women and girls named Lavender. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Lavender living in one state or another. If your name is Lavender and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Lavender relative to the population, you still have to ask 83,427 women and girls their names before you hear Lavender as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With eight letters, the name Lavender is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lavender and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lavender, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Violin
Elephant
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lavender
Lavender
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
V
E
N
D
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
V
E
N
D
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lavender sounds like this:
