Lavalley Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Here is a quick, evidence-based look at the Lavalley surname.

• Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Lavalley, so we research it family by family rather than guess.
• 3,656 Americans were listed as Lavalley in the 2010 census. French birth records list 695 children named Lavalley between 1891 and 2000. There were 26 such births in the 1890s and 69 in the 1990s.

Heraldry and the Lavalley name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Lavalley family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. For the full story, order the Lavalley surname pack.