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Lev

#1,001 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Lev has been given to 3,083 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,001 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 227 recorded.

Babies named Lev, 2025

1 in 14,600

Lev over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lev: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lev means

Lev has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Lev

One of the source’s documented entries for Lev records a meaning of lion.

One of the source’s documented entries for Lev records a meaning of heart.

Origin, language, and formation

Lev is used in English and Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Lev is pronounced [ˈlɛf].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,999 boys were recorded with the name Lev between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 227 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,001 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,109 in 2020 to #1,001 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,295 in 2015 to #1,001 in 2025.

In the United States, 84 girls were recorded with the name Lev between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2020; its best national rank was #9,274 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,274 in 2020 to #10,551 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lev?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,600
227 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,520
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,001
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,124 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lev sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,124 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Levs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lev was born before 2018 — so the typical Lev is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,999
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (1,254).

Is Lev rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+35
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+108
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+294
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (227)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,001
2025

Where Lev is used

Across 2016–2025, Lev was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 2,500 boys, against 1 in 7,838 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

140 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 2,500
  2. 2New York1 in 2,941
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,846
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 4,348
  5. 5California1 in 5,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 5,556
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 5,882
  8. 8Illinois1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Lev around the world

Where Lev ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #953
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #1,663
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #738
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lev

People whose public names include Lev, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lev in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lev. Linked forms have their own page here.

LeoLewLeonLievLeoneLeonidLeonidasLeuLeóLeónLleóLéonLevkoLéonideLéonidas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lev by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,001
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 108
Best rank ever
#1,001
2025
Peak year
2025
227 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,999
Count in 2025
227

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,551
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,277
Best rank ever
#9,274
2020
Peak year
2020
11 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Lev

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Lev

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lev, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lev

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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