Lavell
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Laval, a common French place-name; first attested John de Laval 1121–48 Bury (Suffolk)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫɑˈveɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lavell is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 177K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 222K
- CACanada≈1 in 276K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 177K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Laval, a common French place-name; first attested John de Laval 1121–48 Bury (Suffolk)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lavell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Lavell | 2 |
| US United States | 1,879 | 1 in 177K | 1.7K | Lavell | 220 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 448K | — | Lavell | 68 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Lavell | 2 |
| CO Colombia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 355K | — | Lavell | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Lavell | 49 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Lavell | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Lavell | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lavell Crawfordb. 1968USAmerican actor and comedian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 561 | #37,374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 553 | #39,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 500 | #45,998 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lavell mean, and where does it come from?
- from Laval, a common French place-name; first attested John de Laval 1121–48 Bury (Suffolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Lavell a male or female name?
- Lavell is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Lavell?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɑˈveɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lavell have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Lavell in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavell.
- Where is Lavell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavell is densest in the United States — about 1 in 177 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lavell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,879 people named Lavell in 2020, about 1 in 177 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lavellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lavell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.