Levi

Levi is the 4,486th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,673 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,673
Rank: 4,486th
How common: 1 in 39,000
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Ultimately from of uncertain origin.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Levi described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.9%
Black, not Hispanic 17.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.3%

Notable people called Levi

Primo Levi (1919–1987)Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer
Zachary Levi (born 1980)American actor
Eliphas Levi (1810–1875)French occult writer and poet
Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941)Italian mathematician and physicist
Carlo Levi (1902–1975)Italian painter, writer, politic and anti-fascist
Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894–1956)French historian
Sylvain Lévi (1863–1935)French orientalist and indologist
Paul Levi (1883–1930)German politician

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

Surnames like Levi

Also a first name

Levi has been given to 216,440 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.