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Levan

#9,376 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Leon

Levan has been given to 605 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #9,376 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Levan, 2025

1 in 414,000

Levan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Levan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Leon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Levan means

Levan is a form of Leon.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Levan → Leon. The family’s meaning is “lion”, recorded in English with the source elements leo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 605 boys were recorded with the name Levan between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1978; its best national rank was #2,316 in 1951.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,173 in 2020 to #9,376 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,546 in 2015 to #9,376 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 Levan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,376
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Levan 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Levan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Levans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Levan was born before 1964 — so the typical Levan is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
411
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Choose a decade

1950s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Levan 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
−667
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+797
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,170
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 1978 (14)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,316
1951

Spellings of Levan

Levan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 32.9% against Levan'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 Levan is used

Across 1910–2025, Levan was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 227,407 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in —

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. Levan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Levan around the world

Where Levan 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
    2002–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2002–2025
    #4,448
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #484
    in 1990

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

Levan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,376
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 797
Best rank ever
#2,316
1951
Peak year
1978
14 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
605
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Levan

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

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Sibling names for Levan

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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