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Leva

#12,625 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Leva has been given to 823 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #12,625 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Leva, 2025

1 in 474,000

Leva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leva: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leva means

Leva is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Leva is used in Old Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Leva is pronounced /ˈlɛʋa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 823 girls were recorded with the name Leva between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1921; its best national rank was #734 in 1901.

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 Leva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,625
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leva sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Levas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leva was born before 1918 — so the typical Leva is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
64
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Choose a decade

1920s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Leva 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
+269
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
21.2%
Peak was 1921 (33)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#734
1901

Spellings of Leva

Leva is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 22.6% against Leva's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Leva is used

Across 1910–2025, Leva was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 690,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in —
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in —
  3. 3Tennessee1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Leva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leva around the world

Where Leva 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.

  • France
    2015–2017
    #5,880
    in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Leva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,625
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#734
1901
Peak year
1921
33 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
823
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Leva

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

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Sibling names for Leva

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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