Halevy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form of Levi, with the Hebrew definite article ha
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halevy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 1.7Kas הלוי
- TNTunisia≈1 in 294K
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 Halevy 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 294K (inferred from the name graph)
4,963 named הלוי, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, 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 הלוי in IL Israel, IN India, YE Yemen and 3 more and Halevi in RO Romania.
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 different form of Levi, with the Hebrew definite article ha
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halevy 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 |
| US United States | — | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 198 | Halevy | 132 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | הלוי | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | הלוי | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Halevy | 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"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Joseph Halévyb. 1827FRFrench orientalist (1827–1917)
- Benjamin Halevyb. 1910ILIsraeli politician (1910-1996)
- Benjamin Halevyb. 1913ILIsraeli Hebrew writer (1913–1980)
- Mania Halevyb. 1932ILPolish born Israeli fighter actor and playwright
- Ephraim Halevyb. 1934ILIsraeli diplomat
- Sima Halevyb. 1948ILIsraeli dermatologist
- Yoram HalevyILeconomist (University of Toronto)
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 198 | #98,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 150 | #116,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 128 | #124,109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Halevy mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Levi, with the Hebrew definite article ha Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Halevy 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 Halevy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Halevy in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Halevy compared with other names?
- In Israel, Halevy is the 125th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Halevy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halevyThe 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, “Halevy” — the 125th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.