Meaning and history
Meaning unknown, probably of Etruscan origin. In Roman legend, Lavinia was the daughter of King Latinus, the wife of Aeneas, and an ancestor of the Roman people; according to the same tradition, Aeneas named the town of Lavinium in her honour.
Lavinia rose from #939 to #925 for girls between 1928 and 1929. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 93 births.