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Levada vs Levern

American parents have registered 2,283 Leverns since 1880, against 532 Levadas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Levada against Levern, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Levada Levern

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

Of the 94 years in which either name was published, Levern for 80 years and Levada for 14 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Levada Levern
Total US births 5322,283
Most in one year 2268
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1101,100
Median age today 8069
Peak year 19201955
Best rank 1,816th girls957th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18911912
Girls / boys 532 / 0382 / 1,901

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Levadas alive today are over 80; half the Leverns are over 69. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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