Given name & surname
Lasalle
“from the hall”
Lasalle is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “from the hall.”
Original FrenchLa Salle
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “from the hall.”
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 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lasalle through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 416
- 400 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 14 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 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 302 as a first name in 2020; 3,601 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.
Lasalle’s family of names
Lasalle has a related form in Lasal. Lasalle has a related form in Lasale. Lasalle has a related form in Lasall.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lasalle
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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