Given name & surname
Duvall
“from the valley”
Duvall is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “from the valley.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “from the valley.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1930. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Duvall through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 77
- 77 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 163 as a first name in 2020; 18,849 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Duvall’s family of names
Duvall has a related form in Duval. Duvall has a related form in Duvale.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Duvall
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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