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Levell vs Levon

American parents have registered 6,167 Levons since 1880, against 765 Levells. Levon is still ahead, with 102 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Levell against Levon, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Levell Levon

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 113 years in which either name was published, Levon for 112 years and Levell for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Levell Levon
Total US births 7656,167
Most in one year 15140
Babies in 2025 under 5102
Estimated living today 5304,900
Median age today 4633
Peak year 19522018
Best rank 2,010th boys1,299th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,644th
First recorded 19141913
Girls / boys 0 / 765429 / 5,738

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 Levells alive today are over 46; half the Levons are over 33. That is 13 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: Levell and Levon.