Levi

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Levi boys named Levi

By the numbers

Total US births

216,440

Estimated living today

203,000

Median age today

11

Peak year

2022

Best rank

12th

Rank in 2025

12th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

1,427 / 215,013

How old the living Levis are

born that year still alive today

Of the 216,440 babies given the name since 1880, about 203,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 144,000 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Ultimately from of uncertain origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Levis

• Levi Eshkol (1895–1969)Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party and Prime Minister
• Levi P. Morton (1824–1920)vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893
• Levi Strauss (1829–1902)German-Jewish-born American businessman
• Zachary Levi (born 1980)American actor
• Levi Colwill (born 2003)English association football player
• Levi Leipheimer (born 1973)American cyclist
• Levi Miller (born 2002)Australian actor and model
• Levi Woodbury (1789–1851)US Supreme Court justice from 1845 to 1851

People named Levi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Levi is most common

• CA19,341
• TX18,767
• FL9,581
• OH9,221
• PA9,140
• NY7,671
• NC7,565
• MI7,233
• GA6,669
• IN6,492

Relative to how many babies each state records, Levi is most concentrated in Alaska (2.6×), Wyoming (2.2×), Idaho (2.1×), Nevada (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular boys’ names the year Levi peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• James
• Elijah
• William

All the names of 2022

Levi elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Levi: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Levi is most concentrated in Schaffhausen, where 0.33% of children were given it – 49 of them.

Levi: rank by region

In 2025, Levi was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.

In 2025, Levi was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Levi appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (Levi, 29th), Province of West Flanders (Levi, 48th), Province of East Flanders (Levi, 69th), Province of Antwerp (Levi, 86th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Levi, 86th), Brussels-Capital Region (Levi, 130th), Province of Liège (Levi, 147th) and Province of Hainaut (Lévi, 215th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Levi by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Levi among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Levi lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 642 men called Levi were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Levon
• Levy
• Lev
• Levern
• Levar
• Levin
• Leviticus
• Leverne
• Levie
• Leviathan
• Levester
• Leva

Levi against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Levi vs Levon
• Levi vs Levy
• Levi vs Lev
• Levi vs Levern
• Levi vs Levar
• Levi vs Levin

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