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Levar vs Levie

American parents have registered 2,026 Levars since 1880, against 1,130 Levies. But in 2025 it was Levie that was commoner, 11 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Levar Levie

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 121 years in which either name was published, Levie for 78 years and Levar for 43 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Levar Levie
Total US births 2,0261,130
Most in one year 53234
Babies in 2025 under 511
Estimated living today 1,900340
Median age today 4553
Peak year 19771917
Best rank 342nd boys1,437th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19771886
Girls / boys 9 / 2,017207 / 923

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 Levies alive today are over 53; half the Levars are over 45. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Levie.