Levý
surname · Latin script
Meaning: left (of direction)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/lɛviː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Levý is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 9K
- CZCzechia1 in 14K
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)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
37,228 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Levy in US United States, CZ Czechia, CH Switzerland.
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)left (of direction)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Levý 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 37,228 | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Levy | 117 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,449 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | #690 | 769 | 1 in 14K | 771 | Levy | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 706 | 1 in 71K | 706 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 537 | 1 in 16K | 537 | Levy | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 378 | 1 in 15K | 378 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 6 | 1 in 9K | 6 | — | — |
37,228 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Levý 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 zlw-ocs, left
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Václav Levýb. 1820CZCzech sculptor (1820–1870)
- Otakar Levýb. 1896CZCzech literary theorist and translator (1896–1946)
- Karel Levýb. 1897CZassociation football player (1897-1980)
- Jiří Levýb. 1926CZCzech literary theorist and translator (1926-1967)
- Stanislav Levýb. 1958CZassociation football manager and former player from the Czech Republic
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 771 | #1,403 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 771 | #1,807 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 769 | #1,862 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Levý mean, and where does it come from?
- left (of direction) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Levý?
- In the etymology graph, Levák is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Levý?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛviː/ (IPA) for Czech.
- In which country does Levý have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Levý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled levy.
- Where is Levý most common?
- Levý is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Levý?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,228 people named Levý in 2010, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Levý compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Levý is the 690th most common surname of 114,573 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/lev%C3%BDThe 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, “Levý” — the 690th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.