Laverty
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic O Fhlaithbheartaigh and Mac Fhlaithbheartaigh, ‘descendant/son of Fhlaithbheartach’, literally ‘princely doer of valiant deeds’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Laverty is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 33Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 36K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 37K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
2,879 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Irish Gaelic O Fhlaithbheartaigh and Mac Fhlaithbheartaigh, ‘descendant/son of Fhlaithbheartach’, literally ‘princely doer of valiant deeds’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laverty 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 | 2,879 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Laverty | 293 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Laverty | 151 |
| AU Australia | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Laverty | 103 |
| CA Canada | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Laverty | 100 |
| IE Ireland | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Laverty | 50 |
2,879 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)Laverty is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a lost place in East Grinstead, Sussex; first attested Thomas de Lauerketye 1296
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Gael. 6 Fhlaithbheartaigh and Mac Fhlaithbheartaigh ‘descendant’ and ‘son of Flaithbheartach', a personal name composed of the elementsflaith prince, ruler + beartach doer of valiant deeds. Vars.: Lafferty; McLaverty.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
variant of Lafferty.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Bernard Lavertyb. 1863Irish Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Down and Connor
- Jean Lavertyb. 1904USAmerican actress
- Maura Lavertyb. 1907IEactor and writer
- Colin Lavertyb. 1937AUAustralian medical practitioner
- Paul Lavertyb. 1957GBIrish-Scottish screenwriter
- Eugene Lavertyb. 1986GBBritish motorcycle racer
- Garry LavertyGBresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,044 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,543 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #11,847 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Laverty mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic O Fhlaithbheartaigh and Mac Fhlaithbheartaigh, ‘descendant/son of Fhlaithbheartach’, literally ‘princely doer of valiant deeds’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Laverty have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Laverty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laverty.
- How common is the name Laverty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,879 people named Laverty in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
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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, “Laverty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.