Levai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
/lɛvɑi/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated · uncertain
Levai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 36Kfew records
- CZCzechia1 in 80K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, 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 Lévai in HU Hungary, SK Slovakia.
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.
How to pronounce Levai
- Hungarian:/lɛvɑi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swedish:/levaiː/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Levai is found
(measured from records)Levai 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Levai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of levare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, first-person singular past historic of lever
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person plural imperative of levar
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)- Codrina-Mihaela LevaiROresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Levai?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /lɛvɑi/; in Swedish /levaiː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Levai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Levai in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lévai. After it come Slovakia, Czechia, Romania and Serbia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Levai?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 134 people named Levai, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Levai compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Levai is the 173rd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Levai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/levaiThe 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, “Levai” — the 173rd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.