What We Know About the Lavery Surname

Lavery is an Irish surname. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “descendant of the speaker or spokesman”. Like many surnames, it grew out of a personal name.

Lavery ranked 8,401 in the 2010 US Census, with 3,938 people answering to the name. 267 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Lavery name at birth. Births ran at 5 in 1891–1900 and 26 in 1991–2000.

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Lavery coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line. Get the complete Lavery report, with a museum-style coat of arms.