Lévai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male habitational surname from Hungarian
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ˈleːvɒji/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Lévai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 36Kfew records
- CZCzechia1 in 80K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Levai in CZ Czechia, RO Romania, RS Serbia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male habitational surname from Hungarian
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lévai counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jenő Lévaib. 1892HU(1892–1983) journalist, writer
- Andor Lévaib. 1897HUHungarian architect (1897-1964)
- András Lévaib. 1908ROHungarian energy engineer (1908-2003)
- Katalin Lévaib. 1954HUHungarian politician
- Anikó Lévaib. 1963HUwife of Viktor Orbán
- Csaba Lévaib. 1964HULévai, Csaba, 1964-
- Zsolt Lévaib. 1965HUHungarian rower
- István Lévaib. 1990HUSlovak wrestler
- Zoltán Lévaib. 1996HUHungarian Greco-Roman wrestler (1996)
- Tamás Lévaib. 1999Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler (1999–)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lévai mean, and where does it come from?
- a male habitational surname from Hungarian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lévai?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈleːvɒji/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈleːvai/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Lévai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Lévai in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lévai.
- How common is the name Lévai?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 134 people named Lévai, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Lévai compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Lévai is the 173rd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lévai?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9vaiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lévai” — the 173rd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.