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Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Lavinia: Latin, from ancient place name Lavinium
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Lavinia is a charmingly prim and proper Victorian-sounding name which actually dates back to classical mythology, where it was the name of the wife of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who was considered the mother of the Roman people.

Later literary bearers include the protagonist's daughter in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (which has the line "She is Lavinia, therefore must be lov'd"), the heroine of G.B. Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, and characters in David Copperfield, Henry James' Washington Square, and the contemporary The Hunger Games.

With its vintage nickname Vinnie, Lavinia might appeal to parents who favor lavender-tinged names like Amelia and Matilda and Maude.

Famous People Named Lavinia

Ava Lavinia Gardner, American actress
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), Bolognese (Italian) painter
Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson, younger sister of the poet Emily, whose poems she discovered and published posthumously
Lavinia "Vinnie" Ream, American sculptor
Lavinia Dock, pioneering nurse and suffragette
Lavinia Fenton, 18th-century actress

Pop Culture References for the Name Lavinia

Lavinia, daughter of Titus in Shakespeare's tragedy 'Titus Andronicus'
Lavinia Herbert, a spoiled bully in the children's novel 'A Little Princess'
Character from 'The Hunger Games' trilogy (mentioned in all 3 books, named in the third)
Lavinia Swire, character from the period drama 'Downton Abbey'

Lavena, Lavenia, Lavina, Lavinie, Levener, Levenia, Levinia, Louvenia, Louvinia, Lovina, Lovinia, Vina, Vinia, Vinnie, Vinny

Lavinia's International Variations

Luvenia, Luvena, Livinia, Levina, Laia (Spanish)