girls:
15 births since 1919
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
49 births since 1921
#4537 (1st percentile)
overall:
64 births since 1919
#7675 (1st percentile)
The name Laverl is the #7,675 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 64 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,537 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1919.
Laverl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 1921 for boys). Birth data for Laverl is available in 11 out of the 19 years between 1919 and 1937 (8 years for boys and 3 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 Laverl has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.6% of all recorded births being male. In 1937, 100.0% of babies named Laverl were boys. Interestingly, until around 1923, the name was more popular for girls (66.7% girls from 1919 to 1922), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (89.8% boys from 1923 to 1937).
For boys, Laverl reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #521) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1937.
For girls, Laverl reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #594) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1925.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laverl".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Laverl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Laverl is pronounced as luh-VERL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LA-verl, at 12.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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