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The first name 
Lavance

Lavance is a male first name.

Lavance – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Lavance has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Lavance. That means that a boy named Lavance is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lavance.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lavance

Lavance -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Lavance. Boys named Lavance have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,964 Lavance ranked higher than ever in 1966. By comparison, there have been 110 years in which the first name Lavance has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their sons Lavance only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lavance was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Lavance in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Lavance continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Lavance that year, ranking #10,408 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Lavance, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Lavance -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Lavance is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Lavance can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Lavance. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Lavance living in one state or another. (If your name is Lavance and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Lavance is in Illinois, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Illinois, only 0.00006% of all male residents are called Lavance – that’s just one in 1,634,106! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Lavance, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Lavance has 7 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.

With seven letters, the name Lavance has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lavance

If your name is Lavance and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Lavance

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lavance, you can simply say:

Lion

Apple

Violin

Apple

Nut

Cat

Elephant

This is how the name Lavance is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lavance in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lavance

Lavance

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lavance

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lavance is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
A
V
A
N
C
E

Have you ever waved the name Lavance

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
A
V
A
N
C
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lavance sounds like this: