Lavelle

Family name origins & meanings

• Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maoil Fhábhail ‘descendant of Maolfhábhail’, a personal name meaning ‘fond of movement or travel’.
• English : from the common French place name Laval, from Old French val ‘valley’. This is also a Huguenot name (with the same etymology), taken to England by Etienne-Abel Laval, a minister of the French church in Castle Street, London, around 1730.
• French : habitational name from Lavelle in Puy-de-Dôme or various other, smaller places so named.