Lavelle
Lavelle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 198954 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1913
- 4,058people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,469 boys have been named Lavelle in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 54 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 16%.
Lavelle is used for both sexes: 39% of its bearers are girls (1,589), most of them born around 1917.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lavelle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 85 | |
| 1920s | 129 | |
| 1930s | 133 | |
| 1940s | 96 | |
| 1950s | 133 | |
| 1960s | 208 | |
| 1970s | 359 | |
| 1980s | 392 | |
| 1990s | 359 | |
| 2000s | 272 | |
| 2010s | 229 | |
| 2020s | 74 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Lavelle was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Lavelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lavellpeak 1985
- Francoispeak 1992
- Corwinpeak 1988
- Lauropeak 2000
- Dionisiopeak 1977
- Juventinopeak 1991
- Felicianopeak 1979
- Ferminpeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.