Lavel
Lavel was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 205 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lavel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lavel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,335, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1993, the peak
Lavel peaked in 1993, when 10 boys were given it, #5,612 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #13,335 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,300 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,516 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,542 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,955 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,192 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,603 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,989 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,447 | 2.5 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,205 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 10 | #5,612 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,250 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,760 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,863 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,643 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,001 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,240 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,130 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,796 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,731 | 4.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,855 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,273 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,424 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,914 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,245 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,072 | 3.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,948 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,298 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,746 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,850 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,873 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lavel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lavel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lavel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lavel, and how old are they?
An estimated 191 Americans named Lavel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 23 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Lavel (55 women and girls, 249 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lavel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Lavel?
Lavel is a less common spelling of Lavell: SSA has recorded 205 Lavel and 3,285 Lavell since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,694 babies since 1880, Lavel is the second most given (5.5% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lavel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lavel and names like it
- Compare Lavel and LavellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLavel peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Lavel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lavel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.