The Laven surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 547 people carried this name — #40,082 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is down 7% from 591 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 56 people named Laven.
Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Calvados.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
326 people named Laven is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Laven,
with a public archive behind them.
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Albin Lavén 1861–1917 · actor -
Stig Lavén 1923–2018 · film exhibitor -
Philipp Laven 1805–1859 · poet
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Abraham Wilhelm Lavén 1812–1858 · military personnel
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Franz Hermann Laven 1844–1914 · writer
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Ludwig Laven 1881– · botanist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Laven.
- Lavallee 4,965 · U.S. census
- Lavalley 3,656 · U.S. census
- Lavanchy 100 · U.S. census
- Lave 338 · U.S. census
- Laveau 178 · U.S. census
- Lavelle 6,074 · U.S. census
- Lavene 205 · U.S. census
- Laventure 838 · U.S. census
- Laverdure 604 · U.S. census
- Lavergne 3,529 · U.S. census
- Laverne 399 · U.S. census
- Laverriere 474 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Laven is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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