Ļevs

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ļevs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24M

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

522 people

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Levs in GB United Kingdom.

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)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ļevs 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.

Where Ļevs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia5221 in 3.6K522Ļevs19
GB United Kingdom≈3 est.≈1 in 24M—Levs5
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 705Klisted—1
US United States≈2 est.≈1 in 137Mlisted—4
IS Iceland——1——

522 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ļevs is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Levs

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Philippines, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Levs

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Левс, Levs

  • Spanish name5 spellings in the group

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Levs, Lêvs

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Leo II, b. 611Leo IV, b. 790Papa Leo VI, b. 880Leo IX, b. 1002Guillaume le Lion, b. 1143Leo XII, b. 1760Leo Tolstoy, b. 1828Leon Trotski, b. 1879Lev Vygotsky, b. 1896Lev Landau, b. 1908
  • Leo IIb. 611ITnot in their usual namepope
  • Leo IVb. 790ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church
  • Papa Leo VIb. 880ITnot in their usual namepope
  • Leo IXb. 1002FRnot in their usual nameHead of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054
  • Guillaume le Lionb. 1143GBnot in their usual nameKing of Alba from 1165 to 1214
  • Leo XIIb. 1760ITnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829
  • Leo Tolstoyb. 1828RUnot in their usual nameRussian author (1828–1910)
  • Leon Trotskib. 1879MXnot in their usual nameRussian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
  • Lev Vygotskyb. 1896RUnot in their usual nameSoviet psychologist (1896-1934)
  • Lev Landaub. 1908AZnot in their usual nameSoviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Ļevs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—522—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—519#587
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Ļevs?
In the etymology graph, Leons is a form of the same name in other languages.
Is Ļevs a male or female name?
Ļevs 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.
What does the name Ļevs mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
In which country does Ļevs have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 522 people named Ļevs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ļevs.
Where is Ļevs most common?
Ļevs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ļevs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 522 people named Ļevs, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Ļevs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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