Levant
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Orient (the countries of Asia) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Levant is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 76K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 234K
- BEBelgium1 in 404K
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 Levant 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
≈900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from French levant ‘east’, a topographic name for someone who lived in the eastern part of a town or settlement, or outside it to the east; or a regional name for someone who had migrated westward (and so was regarded as coming from the east). It may also denote someone from the Levant, the eastern Mediterranean (see Leventis).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Levant is read
(measured from records)Levant is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
A cultural region of Western Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Oscar, US pianist and composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
eastern Mediterranean shores
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French41%
Orient (the countries of Asia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Levant is found
(measured from records)Levant 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 84 | — | 2 |
| GH Ghana | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Levant | 5 |
| US United States | 361 | 1 in 921K | 361 | Levant | 151 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 626K | — | Levant | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | 74 | 1 in 234K | 74 | Levant | 9 |
| IL Israel | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Levant | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Levant | 2 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Levant is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from French levant ‘east’, a topographic name for someone who lived in the eastern part of a town or settlement, or outside it to the east; or a regional name for someone who had migrated westward (and so was regarded as coming from the east). It may also denote someone from the Levant, the eastern Mediterranean (see Leventis).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Serbo-Croatian, Levant (a cultural region of Western Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)
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)- Oscar Levantb. 1906USAmerican comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
- Alma Levant Haydenb. 1927USAmerican chemist
- Brian Levantb. 1952USfilm director
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Levant come from?
- from French levant ‘east’, a topographic name for someone who lived in the eastern part of a town or settlement, or outside it to the east; or a regional name for someone who had migrated westward (an… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Levant?
- In the etymology graph, Lever is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Levant mean?
- In French, Orient (the countries of Asia)
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Levant?
- Mondonomo estimates about 901 people named Levant in France, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ghana, United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Levant?
- In the United States, the national register counted 361 people named Levant in 2010, about 1 in 921 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Levant?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/levantThe 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, “Levant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.