LaVoie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a road, French voie (Latin via)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɫəvˈwɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
LaVoie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 35K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
9,408 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name for someone who lived by a road, French voie (Latin via). This is a very common secondary surname in Canada; it was first seen in Cap Rouge in 1667, taken there from Charente Maritime, and has also been used independently since 1690.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)LaVoie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,408 | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | LaVoie | 61 |
| ES Spain | 18 | 1 in 2.8M | 18 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 4 | 1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | 5 |
9,408 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling lavoie. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)LaVoie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a habitational surname, Lavoie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de La Voie, nom de plusieurs localités en France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Émile Lavoieb. 1850CACanadian writer
- Jean-Noël Lavoieb. 1927CApolitician in Quebec, Canada
- Thérèse Lavoie-Rouxb. 1928CACanadian politician (1928–2009)
- Richard Lavoieb. 1937CACanadian documentary filmmaker
- Lobob. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter
- Daniel Lavoieb. 1949CACanadian musician
- Don Lavoieb. 1951USAmerican economist (1951–2001)
- Marc Lavoieb. 1954CACanadian fencer and economist
- Simon Lavoieb. 1979CACanadian film director and screenwriter
- Frédérick Lavoieb. 1983CACanadian writer and journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.4K | #3,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.2K | #3,762 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9K | #3,648 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18 | #88,854 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #67,011 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #49,466 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #10,018 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name LaVoie mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a road, French voie (Latin via). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce LaVoie?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫəvˈwɑ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does LaVoie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named LaVoie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled LaVoie.
- Where is LaVoie most common?
- LaVoie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name LaVoie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,408 people named LaVoie in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lavoieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “LaVoie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.