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Levi vs Levorn

American parents have registered 216,440 Levis since 1880, against 141 Levorns. Levi is still ahead, with 9,713 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Levi Levorn

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 1950, when Levi had 192 and Levorn had 24.

Side by side

  Levi Levorn
Total US births 216,440141
Most in one year 9,93624
Babies in 2025 9,713under 5
Estimated living today 203,00090
Median age today 1175
Peak year 20221950
Best rank 12th boys1,941st boys
Rank in 2025 12thunranked
First recorded 18801936
Girls / boys 1,427 / 215,01319 / 122

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 Levorns alive today are over 75; half the Levis are over 11. That is 64 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: Levi and Levorn.