girls:
5 births since 1961
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
121 births since 1934
#4465 (3rd percentile)
overall:
126 births since 1934
#7613 (2nd percentile)
The name Lavalle is the #7,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 126 recorded births since 1934. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,465 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 121 births since 1934. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1961.
Lavalle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1934 (1934 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Lavalle is available in 20 out of the 68 years between 1934 and 2001 (19 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lavalle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lavalle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
For girls, Lavalle reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #788) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lavalle".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lavalle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.0% confident that Lavalle is pronounced as luh-VAL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-VAHL, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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