Leveille
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from French I’eveille ‘the awake’, ‘the alert’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Leveille is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 33K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is 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)nickname from French I’eveille ‘the awake’, ‘the alert’. One VT Civil War soldier so named used the translation ‘Wideawake’ for his surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leveille 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #161 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Leveille | 7 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 301 | Leveille | 181 |
| US United States | — | 2,017 | 1 in 165K | 2K | Leveille | 237 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Leveille | 126 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 12 | Leveille | 20 |
| MU Mauritius | #116 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Leveille | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Leveille | 1 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)- Eugène Leveilleb. 1901FRFrench cyclist
- Pierre Leveilleb. 1962CACanadian athletics competitor
- Daultan Leveilleb. 1990CACanadian ice hockey player
- Amanda Leveilleb. 1994CACanadian ice hockey player
- Lee Leveilletransgender rights advocate
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,604 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 342 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 334 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 302 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 301 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 301 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 293 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 253 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 247 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 243 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Leveille come from?
- nickname from French I’eveille ‘the awake’, ‘the alert’. One VT Civil War soldier so named used the translation ‘Wideawake’ for his surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Leveille mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from French I’eveille ‘the awake’, ‘the alert’.
- In which country does Leveille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Leveille in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leveille.
- How common is the name Leveille?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,017 people named Leveille in 2010, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
- How common is Leveille compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Leveille is the 161st most common surname of 1,519 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/leveilleThe 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, “Leveille” — the 161st most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.