Meaning not yet researched.
Lavell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,175 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,175 in 1968; #7,464 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lavell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,464 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #1,175.
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Lavell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,175 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 58 (1992).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Lavell, making it the 7,464th most common boys’ name of the year, up 619 places from #8,083 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 10 boys named Lavell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,175, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 1992. For comparison, it was #3,195 in 2015 and #2,685 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lavell in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 10 babies. In all, 3,285 US babies have been given the name, 10.0% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 460 babies named Lavell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 208 US boys were named Lavell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lavelle (4,069 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laval and Lavail are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Laval (204), Lavail (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lavell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,464 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,083 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,381 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,951 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,685 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,876 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,065 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,061 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,732 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,195 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,186 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,462 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,336 |
| 2011 | — | — | 28 | #3,745 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,419 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,874 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,703 |
| 2007 | — | — | 44 | #2,748 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,281 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,001 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,192 |
| 2003 | — | — | 44 | #2,413 |
| 2002 | — | — | 40 | #2,493 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,460 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,383 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,650 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,754 |
| 1997 | — | — | 36 | #2,329 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,095 |
| 1995 | — | — | 50 | #1,767 |
| 1994 | — | — | 47 | #1,842 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,814 |
| 1992 | — | — | 58 | #1,536 |
| 1991 | — | — | 57 | #1,540 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,648 |
| 1989 | — | — | 52 | #1,557 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,897 |
| 1987 | — | — | 49 | #1,476 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,942 | 48 | #1,447 |
| 1985 | — | — | 58 | #1,264 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,434 |
| 1983 | — | — | 42 | #1,483 |
| 1982 | — | — | 44 | #1,455 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,716 |
| 1980 | — | — | 48 | #1,367 |
| 1979 | — | — | 51 | #1,295 |
| 1978 | — | — | 40 | #1,481 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,329 |
| 1976 | — | — | 50 | #1,232 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,561 | 24 | #1,979 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,260 |
| 1973 | — | — | 40 | #1,321 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,183 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,883 | 41 | #1,319 |
| 1970 | — | — | 38 | #1,361 |
| 1969 | — | — | 36 | #1,340 |
| 1968 | — | — | 42 | #1,175 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,439 | 18 | #1,875 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,357 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,079 | 26 | #1,541 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,416 | 24 | #1,639 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,147 | 28 | #1,500 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,717 | 24 | #1,652 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,393 | 17 | #2,042 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,877 | 23 | #1,717 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,316 | 24 | #1,646 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,785 | 27 | #1,522 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,993 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,642 | 10 | #2,717 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,940 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,312 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,152 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,228 | 16 | #1,982 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,836 | 22 | #1,624 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,685 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,534 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,419 | 10 | #2,539 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,034 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,724 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,894 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,002 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,345 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,011 | 14 | #2,002 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,760 | 9 | #2,573 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,945 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,825 | 5 | #3,751 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,683 | 8 | #2,772 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,056 | 19 | #1,607 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,656 | 9 | #2,631 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,503 | 15 | #1,898 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,011 | 20 | #1,569 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,758 | 14 | #2,055 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,689 | 16 | #1,892 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,204 | 15 | #2,023 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,864 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,990 | 15 | #2,110 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,626 | 12 | #2,471 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,093 | 17 | #1,952 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,700 | 9 | #3,043 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,238 | 12 | #2,561 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,183 | 19 | #1,843 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,058 | 9 | #3,141 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,864 | 14 | #2,318 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,413 | 13 | #2,397 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,542 | 12 | #2,440 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,574 | 6 | #3,961 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,230 | 8 | #3,073 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,647 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,029 | 12 | #2,248 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,532 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,450 | 5 | #3,063 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).