Lévi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Hebrew Levi, possibly 'joined, attached'
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/levi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lévi is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4K
- USUnited States1 in 2.4K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
136,747 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Levi in US United States, GA Gabon.
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)From Hebrew Levi, possibly 'joined, attached'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lévi 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.
136,747 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lévi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Levi (third son of Jacob)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine hébraïque, « attaché »; nom biblique lié à la tribu des Lévites.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Russian, from lēwī, 'Levite'
as a nameRussian Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lévi Planchon-Lasalleb. 1760FRFrench politician
- Lévi Forestb. 1882CACanadian Catholic priest
- Lévi Doréb. 2000CACanadian actor
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lévi mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew Levi, possibly 'joined, attached'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Lévi?
- A machine transcription gives /levi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Lévi a male or female name?
- Lévi is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- In which country does Lévi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 137 thousand people named Lévi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled levi.
- Where is Lévi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lévi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lévi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136,747 people named Lévi in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lévi compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Lévi is the 501st most common given name of 2,821 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lévi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9viThe 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, “Lévi” — the 501st most common given name in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.