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Lavance
How to Pronounce Lavance
Pronounced luh-VANCE /ləˈvæns/Low
Meaning: Lavance joins the La- prefix to Vance, an English surname from a word for a marsh or fen, hence 'one who lives by the fen.' The result is a rhythmic prefix-built name in the mid-century African-American tradition, using a real surname as its base.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Lavance is an American given name pairing the La- prefix with Vance, an English surname meaning 'marsh' or 'fen dweller.' It belongs to the twentieth-century family of soft-prefix names and reads as a rhythm-first coinage on a real surname. It appears thinly in the records, always rare.
It was never common, given to only about fifteen boys a year even at its peak around 1992. A boy named Lavance then is in his early thirties today.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Lavance mean?
It is a coinage joining the La- prefix to Vance, an English surname meaning 'marsh' or 'fen dweller.'
How do you pronounce Lavance?
It is said luh-VANCE /ləˈvæns/ - two syllables, stress on the second.
Is Lavance a boy or girl name?
Lavance is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Lavance?
It was always rare in the United States, given to only about fifteen boys a year even at its peak in the nineteen-nineties.