Leven
#11,458 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Leven has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #11,458 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Leven, 2025
1 in 553,000
Leven over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Leven?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,458
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Leven sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leven. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Levens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Leven was born before 2015 — so the typical Leven is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 201
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (94).
Is Leven 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
- −5,657
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,597
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,908
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 24.0%
- Peak was 2018 (25)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Leven
Leven is not the most common spelling — Steven is, with 33.1% against Leven's <0.01%.
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.
Leven around the world
Where Leven 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 & Wales2006–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2015–2025#3,364in 2025
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Leven by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Leven
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Leven
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.