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Levar vs Levell

American parents have registered 2,026 Levars since 1880, against 765 Levells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Levar against Levell, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Levar Levell

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 98 years in which either name was published, Levell for 52 years and Levar for 46 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Levar Levell
Total US births 2,026765
Most in one year 53215
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,900530
Median age today 4546
Peak year 19771952
Best rank 342nd boys2,010th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19771914
Girls / boys 9 / 2,0170 / 765

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.

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