Levy

At the 2020 census, 36,499 Americans bore the surname Levy — 938th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,189.

By the numbers

People: 36,499
Rank: 938th
How common: 1 in 8,189
Per 100,000: 12.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From the biblical name Levi. Unlike the biblical spelling, which descended through continuous liturgical traditions that preserved final secondary stress (causing it to shift to), the surname was re-introduced into English after the 1650s via French Lévy and German Levy.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.4%
Black, not Hispanic 13.5%
Hispanic or Latino 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Levy

William Levy (born 1980)Cuban actor
Shawn Levy (born 1968)Canadian fimmaker
Marc Levy (born 1961)French writer
Eugene Levy (born 1946)Canadian actor and comedian
Yasmin Levy (born 1975)Ladino singer-songwriter
Jane Levy (born 1989)American actress
David H. Levy (born 1948)Canadian astronomer
Dan Levy (born 1983)Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer

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

Surnames like Levy

Also a first name

Levy has been given to 4,256 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2021. 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.