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Levina vs Levon

American parents have registered 6,167 Levons since 1880, against 631 Levinas. Levon is still ahead, with 102 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Levina 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 125 years in which either name was published, Levon for 109 years and Levina for 16 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Levina Levon
Total US births 6316,167
Most in one year 20140
Babies in 2025 19102
Estimated living today 2904,900
Median age today 3533
Peak year 19222018
Best rank 1,957th girls1,299th boys
Rank in 2025 6,116th1,644th
First recorded 18811913
Girls / boys 631 / 0429 / 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 Levinas alive today are over 35; half the Levons are over 33. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Levina Levon
France 5335
England and Wales 9142
Switzerland 2854

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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