Le-Ven

surname · Latin script

Le-Ven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from places called Leven in East Yorkshire, Fife, and Renfrew. The first is probably from a stream name, possibly derived from a Celtic word meaning smooth (as in Welsh llyfyn).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 174K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 456K
  • USUnited States1 in 546K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

609 people, 2010

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 174K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

habitational name from places called Leven in East Yorkshire, Fife, and Renfrew. The first is probably from a stream name, possibly derived from a Celtic word meaning smooth (as in Welsh llyfyn). The Scottish place name is from a Gaelic river name meaning ‘elm river’.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Le-Ven 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 Le-Ven is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6091 in 546K721—37
FI Finland321 in 174K32——
BR Brazil211 in 10M21——
ES Spain191 in 2.6M19—1
NO Norway121 in 456K12—2
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—3

609 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Le-Ven under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Le-Ven mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from places called Leven in East Yorkshire, Fife, and Renfrew. The first is probably from a stream name, possibly derived from a Celtic word meaning smooth (as in Welsh llyfyn). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Le-Ven have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 609 people named Le-Ven, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Le-Ven most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Le-Ven is densest in Finland — about 1 in 174 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Le-Ven?
In the United States, the national register counted 609 people named Le-Ven in 2010, about 1 in 546 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, “Le-Ven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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