Levin

Levin is the 1,939th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,142 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,500.

By the numbers

People: 18,142
Rank: 1,939th
How common: 1 in 16,500
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Russian Левин, from Леви + -ин (“forming possessives & adjectives”), ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (“Levi”), of uncertain origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Levin

Ira Levin (1929–2007)American novelist, playwright
Tony Levin (born 1946)American rock bass player
Carl Levin (1934–2021)American politician
Yariv Levin (born 1969)Minister of Justice of Israel since 2022
Maks Levin (1981–2022)Ukrainian photojournalist
Henry Levin (1909–1980)American film director
Rob Levin (1955–2006)founder of the IRC network freenode
Robert Levin (born 1947)American musician

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

Surnames like Levin

Also a first name

Levin has been given to 1,698 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 2011. 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.