Laval
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laval has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Laval, 2008
1 in 655,000
Laval over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Laval?
Laval had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laval sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laval. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lavals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laval was born before 1964 — so the typical Laval is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 24.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 166
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Laval rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1955 (9)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.5% average annual change
Spellings of Laval
Laval is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 28.3% against Laval's 0.17%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Laval by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Laval
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Laval
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.