Entry № 5793 · French origin

Lavonne Lavonne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-VON /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Yew tree / young archer (Lavonne in A League of Their Own)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (American)

A name that means "yew tree / young archer (lavonne in a league of their own)".

Lavonne is a 20th-century American name — the prefix La- combined with Yvonne (French "yew, young archer"). Wrigley to keep baseball alive during World War II and is enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame (1988). Lavonne Andrews — American author. Lavonne Roberts — journalist. The name peaked during the 1930s-40s and is now considered a vintage revival candidate alongside Yvonne and Simone.

Yew tree / young archer.

The name in its native script.

Lavonne
Transliteration
Lavonne
Pronunciation
/ ləˈvɒn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lavonne stands.

Lavonne does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lavonnes before her.

Real people
Pepper Paire-Davis
AAGPBL player, inspiration for A League of Their Own.
1924 – 2013
In fiction
Lavonne
A League of Their Own inspiration.
1992

Names connected to Lavonne.

The number behind Lavonne.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lavonne reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.