Lavey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a local variant of Leavy (see Dunleavy)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫeɪvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lavey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 474K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 56K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 100K
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
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a local variant of Leavy (see Dunleavy). La Via (103) Italian: topographic name for someone who lived by a main street or thoroughfare, from via ‘main street’, ‘main road’, with the definite article la.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lavey 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 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Lavey | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Lavey | 1 |
| US United States | 702 | 1 in 474K | 963 | Lavey | 211 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Lavey | 50 |
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Lavey | 4 |
| LR Liberia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Lavey | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Lavey | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lavey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Irish, This Westmeath name is presumably a local form of the Co. Longford Leavy
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anton Szandor LaVeyb. 1930USfounder of the Church of Satan; author of the Satanic Bible (1930-1997)
- Karla LaVeyb. 1952USDaughter of Anton LaVey
- Christian Laveyb. 1976LULuxembourgish stage magician
- Tessa Laveyb. 1993AUAustralian basketball player (born 1993)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 963 | #26,649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 918 | #25,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 702 | #32,710 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- How do you pronounce Lavey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫeɪvi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lavey mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a local variant of Leavy (see Dunleavy). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lavey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Lavey in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavey.
- How common is the name Lavey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 702 people named Lavey in 2010, about 1 in 474 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laveyThe 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, “Lavey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.