Lëvïs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lëvïs is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burundi than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Old French vis ‘(spiral) staircase’, with the Old Picard feminine article le; perhaps a nickname for someone whose house had such a feature.
- BIBurundi≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 17K
- GAGabon≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Burundi (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Burundi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Levis in CA Canada, US United States.
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 Old French vis ‘(spiral) staircase’, with the Old Picard feminine article le; perhaps a nickname for someone whose house had such a feature.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lëvïs 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lëvïs mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old French vis ‘(spiral) staircase’, with the Old Picard feminine article le; perhaps a nickname for someone whose house had such a feature. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Lëvïs a male or female name?
- Lëvïs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Lëvïs?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Lëvïs in Burundi, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Venezuela, United States, Sweden and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lëvïs?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,725 people named Lëvïs, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%ABv%C3%AFsThe 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, “Lëvïs” — ranked 16th in Burundi (CENI). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.