The Lavin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,679 people carried this name — #5,224 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 44,200 people counted. That is up 4% from 6,435 in 2000.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 42 births for the Lavin name in 1890.
Most were registered in Connacht. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 1,900 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. The count includes the spelling Lavan.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,274 people named Lavin live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 67 people named Lavin.
19 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Somme.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
201 people named Lavin is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Lavin in American newspapers,
1913.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 29,755 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lavin.
- Lavery 3,938 · U.S. census
- Lavie 198 · U.S. census
- Lavielle 159 · U.S. census
- Lavier 193 · U.S. census
- Lavigne 7,204 · U.S. census
- Laville 178 · U.S. census
- Lavina 198 · U.S. census
- Laviolette 1,965 · U.S. census
- Lavis 408 · U.S. census
- Lavoie 9,408 · U.S. census
- Lavole 253 · U.S. census
- Lavy 783 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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