Lavonne is a 20th-century American name — the prefix La- combined with Yvonne (French "yew, young archer"). A top-300 US baby name from 1925 to 1955. Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis (1924-2013) — American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL, 1944-1953); *one of the primary real-life inspirations for the 1992 film A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall; the character of Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) drew on Paire-Davis's experiences as a star catcher; she co-wrote the league's anthem "Victory Song." The AAGPBL was founded in 1943 by Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. 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 exemplifies the mid-century African American and broader American naming tradition that produced Ladonna, Lavern, Latonya, and similar La-* prefixed names. Lavonne Roberts — journalist. The name peaked during the 1930s-40s and is now considered a vintage revival candidate alongside Yvonne and Simone.
Featured throughout 20th-century American sports history.
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.
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.