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Leviathan

#2,963 in 2025Boys' name

Garland, wreath

Leviathan has been given to 863 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #2,963 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Leviathan, 2025

1 in 78,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leviathan: meaning, origin, and history

Garland, wreath

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leviathan means

Leviathan means “garland, wreath”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 863 boys were recorded with the name Leviathan between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 87 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,761 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,761 in 2020 to #2,963 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,746 in 2015 to #2,963 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.

How common is Leviathan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,963
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leviathan 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leviathan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leviathans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leviathan was born before 2019 — so the typical Leviathan is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
863
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (396).

Is Leviathan 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
−665
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,202
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−217
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.3%
Peak was 2020 (87)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,761
2020

Where Leviathan is used

Across 2016–2025, Leviathan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 45,616 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Missouri1 in 33,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Utah1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Leviathan around the world

Where Leviathan 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.

  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Leviathan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,963
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,202
Best rank ever
#1,761
2020
Peak year
2020
87 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
863
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Leviathan

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

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Sibling names for Leviathan

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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