Halevi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: the Levite; Toledo; Amsterdam; Smyrna; Salonika; Chile; Rio de Janeiro; Iraq; before 1492
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/həˈɫeɪvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Halevi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 1.7Kas הלוי(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 91K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Halevi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
4,963 named הלוי, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled הלוי in IL Israel, IN India, YE Yemen and 3 more.
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)
the Levite; Toledo; Amsterdam; Smyrna; Salonika; Chile; Rio de Janeiro; Iraq; before 1492
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halevi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #125 | 4,963as הלוי | 1 in 1.7K | 5K | הלוי | 73 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | הלוי | 2 |
| IN India | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | הלוי | 2 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Halevi | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | הלוי | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | הלוי | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | הלוי | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Halevi | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | 2 |
4,963 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Halevi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, najveći židovski srednjovjekovni pjesnik; živio u Španjolskoj (Toledo), pisao na hebrejskom intimnu poeziju, poeziju nacionalnog i vjerskog sadržaja te prozno filozofsko djelo Hazari
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Zerachiah haLevi of Gironab. 1130FR12th century Catalonian rabbi and poet
- Aaron Halevib. 1887ILIsraeli painter
- Moshe Beit haLevib. 1912ILIsraeli footballer and manager (1912-1997)
- Nadav Halevib. 1928ILIsraeli economist
- Ilan Halevib. 1943FRJewish P.L.O journalist, politician (1943–2013)
- Yoram Halevib. 1963ILIsraeli police officer
- Herzi Halevib. 1967ILChief of the General Staff of Israel Defense Forces
- Amit Halevyb. 1971ILIsraeli rabbi and politician
- Tzachi HaLevyb. 1975ILIsraeli actor and musician
- Odelya Halevib. 1989ILIsraeli actress
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #55,434 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Halevi mean, and where does it come from?
- the Levite; Toledo; Amsterdam; Smyrna; Salonika; Chile; Rio de Janeiro; Iraq; before 1492 Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Halevi?
- A machine transcription gives /həˈɫeɪvi/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Halevi have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named הלוי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Halevi?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 6 people named Halevi, about 1 in 978 thousand residents.
- How common is Halevi compared with other names?
- In Israel, Halevi is the 125th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haleviThe 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, “Halevi” — the 125th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.