Meaning not yet researched.
Lavelle: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,241 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,241 in 1972; #7,037 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lavelle in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,037 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,241.
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Lavelle: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,241 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 54 (1989).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Lavelle, making it the 7,037th most common boys’ name of the year, up 51 places from #7,088 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 12 boys named Lavelle in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,241, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 54, in 1989. For comparison, it was #4,485 in 2015 and #2,686 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Lavelle in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #940, reached in 1917. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,154 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lavelle in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 8 babies. In all, 4,069 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 536 babies named Lavelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 170 US boys were named Lavelle; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lavell (3,285 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lavel, Lavalle and Lavale 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: Lavel (205), Lavalle (126), Lavale (55), Lavall (5).
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 Lavelle 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 | — | — | 12 | #7,037 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,708 | 12 | #7,088 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,099 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,140 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,256 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,848 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,950 | 19 | #5,071 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,163 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,432 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,417 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,485 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,335 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,733 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,042 | 36 | #3,147 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #4,056 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,959 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,781 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,614 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,254 | 32 | #3,411 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,445 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,135 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,814 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,081 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,420 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,375 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,043 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,257 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,755 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,290 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,463 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,126 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,660 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,189 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,149 | 51 | #1,688 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,392 | 43 | #1,852 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,773 | 46 | #1,745 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,571 | 54 | #1,528 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,858 | 51 | #1,494 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,922 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,246 | 42 | #1,575 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,581 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,819 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,472 | 43 | #1,460 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,754 | 32 | #1,799 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,316 | 37 | #1,621 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,650 | 28 | #1,987 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,546 | 29 | #1,890 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,333 | 35 | #1,610 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,088 | 36 | #1,560 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,339 | 37 | #1,485 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,467 | 43 | #1,332 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,014 | 33 | #1,534 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,712 | 28 | #1,680 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,422 | 45 | #1,241 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,702 | 40 | #1,343 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,619 | 33 | #1,481 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,594 | 27 | #1,588 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,623 | 23 | #1,670 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,265 | 23 | #1,629 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,083 | 25 | #1,561 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,341 | 20 | #1,796 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,765 | 24 | #1,640 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,410 | 18 | #1,934 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,104 | 11 | #2,598 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,536 | 16 | #2,109 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,590 | 21 | #1,797 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,719 | 12 | #2,484 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,072 | 18 | #1,932 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,404 | 13 | #2,331 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,321 | 17 | #1,989 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,930 | 16 | #2,016 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,925 | 17 | #1,931 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,820 | 11 | #2,466 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,989 | 9 | #2,793 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,395 | 11 | #2,441 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,154 | 9 | #2,686 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,927 | 5 | #3,996 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,061 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,837 | 16 | #1,957 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,541 | 7 | #3,055 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,023 | 8 | #2,664 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,705 | 8 | #2,759 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,041 | 8 | #2,853 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,740 | 15 | #1,913 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,990 | 10 | #2,419 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,932 | 9 | #2,588 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,448 | 10 | #2,371 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,460 | 13 | #2,045 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,402 | 19 | #1,608 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,401 | 8 | #2,751 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,289 | 9 | #2,632 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,579 | 17 | #1,759 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,067 | 12 | #2,164 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,789 | 17 | #1,813 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,527 | 11 | #2,402 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,359 | 17 | #1,865 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,323 | 10 | #2,688 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,106 | 17 | #1,937 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,439 | 15 | #2,158 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,252 | 15 | #2,140 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,128 | 9 | #3,044 |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,311 | 9 | #3,142 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,317 | 15 | #2,182 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,149 | 16 | #2,104 |
| 1921 | 50 | #1,077 | 12 | #2,568 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,219 | 11 | #2,687 |
| 1919 | 40 | #1,186 | 14 | #2,207 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,141 | 14 | #2,223 |
| 1917 | 55 | #940 | 10 | #2,645 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,075 | 10 | #2,648 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,180 | 19 | #1,634 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,367 | 10 | #2,200 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,332 | 8 | #2,178 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,384 | — | — |
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).