Lavale
Lavale was last recorded in 1995, when 6 babies were given it; 55 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavale?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,427, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1980, the peak
Lavale peaked in 1980, when 9 boys were given it, #4,352 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #8,427 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,862 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,129 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,352 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,539 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,104 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,845 | 3.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,133 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,747 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavale has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavale, and how old are they?
An estimated 50 Americans named Lavale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 126 people named Lavale (21 women and girls, 105 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,250 babies since 1880, Lavale is the third most given (1.3% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Lavale and names like it
- Compare Lavale and LavelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLavale peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Lavale.
- Names starting with LMost given first.