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    The surname Lavallée

    A French surname, carried by 4,965 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L140

    Lavallée: #6,793 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lavallée #6,793, 4,965 people Lavallée: #6,793 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lavallée #6,793, 4,965 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lavallée is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From French Lavallée.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,965 people named Lavallée in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,184 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,726.

    #6,793
    rank among US surnames
    4,965
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.1%
    change since 2000 (was #6,615)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,790Addington4,96862,147
    #6,791Bowes4,96762,159
    #6,792Coulson4,96662,172
    #6,793Fuhrman4,96562,184

    Who is named Lavallée

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Lavallée identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lavallée

    Lavallée has the Soundex code L140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L140.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lavallée come from?
    From French Lavallée.
    How common is the surname Lavallée?
    4,965 people in the United States had the surname Lavallée in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,184 Americans. It ranked 6,793rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lavallée?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lavallée identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lavallée getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,726 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,965 in 2010, up 5.1%.