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Leevi vs Levi

American parents have registered 216,440 Levis since 1880, against 812 Leevis. Levi is still ahead, with 9,713 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leevi against Levi, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leevi Levi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Levi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Leevi had 57 and Levi had 7,505.

Side by side

  Leevi Levi
Total US births 812216,440
Most in one year 579,936
Babies in 2025 259,713
Estimated living today 800203,000
Median age today 1211
Peak year 20132022
Best rank 2,250th boys12th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th12th
First recorded 19791880
Girls / boys 0 / 8121,427 / 215,013

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leevi Levi
England and Wales 5011,022
Switzerland 1242,605

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leevi and Levi.