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The LAVALLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,594 8444 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 181 20787 0 4
Change since 1880 +3413 +12343 +N/A +9
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAVALLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 686 2910 0.004 36
Massachusetts 575 1639 0.009 91
Michigan 251 5002 0.003 25
Florida 183 10423 0.001 11
New Hampshire 165 1236 0.013 134
Top States for LAVALLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 82 1396 0.013 135
New Hampshire 165 1236 0.013 134
Massachusetts 575 1639 0.009 91
Montana 50 2585 0.006 55
Rhode Island 52 3207 0.005 50

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LAVALLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAVALLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAVALLEY in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAVALLEY by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAVALLEY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAVALLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LAVALLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 64 1.78
White (Hispanic) 64 1.78
Black/African American 32 0.89
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.75
Asian/Pacific 13 0.36
White (Caucasian) 3,394 94.44

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LAVALLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LAVALLEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LAVALLEY.

Similar names to LAVALLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAVALLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LAVALLEY

The following words are slight variants of LAVALLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.