Levente
given name · Latin script
Meaning: épée (kind of sword)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɛvɛntɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Levente is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 231(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 5.3K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
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 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 231 (inferred from the name graph)
42,249 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
épée (kind of sword)
Sources 1
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Levente 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #66 | 42,249 | 1 in 231 | 42K | Levente | 157 |
| RO Romania | #320 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Levente | 66 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 172K | 3 | Levente | 78 |
| SK Slovakia | #803 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Levente | 33 |
| US United States | — | 225 | 1 in 1.5M | 221 | Levente | 126 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 121 | Levente | 47 |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | 1 |
42,249 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Levente 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 Hungarian, a male given name, meaning “existing”
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)
- Leventeb. 1010Member of the House of Árpád, son of Vazul (died 1047)
- Levente Lengyelb. 1933HUHungarian chess player (1933–2014)
- Levente Királyb. 1937HUHungarian actor (1937–2024)
- Levente Molnárb. 1976ROHungarian actor and casting director from Romania (1976–)
- Levente Füredyb. 1978HUOlympic wrestler (1978–)
- Levente Szuperb. 1980HUHungarian ice hockey player (born 1980)
- Levente Vajdab. 1981RORomanian chess player (1981–)
- Levente Bőszb. 1994HURomanian association footballer player (1994–)
- Levente Szabób. 1999HUHungarian footballer (1999–)
- Levente Bőszeb. 2009HUHungarian footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 42K | #32 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2006 | 1.5K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2005 | 1.5K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2009 | 1.4K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2012 | 1.4K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2008 | 1.4K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2007 | 1.4K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2010 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2011 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2016 | 1.3K | — |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2020 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Levente mean, and where does it come from?
- épée (kind of sword) Recorded by Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
- Is Levente a male or female name?
- Levente is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Levente have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Levente, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled levente.
- Where is Levente most common?
- Levente is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 231 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Levente?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛvɛntɛ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- How common is the name Levente?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 42,249 people named Levente in 2025, about 1 in 231 residents.
- How common is Levente compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Levente is the 66th most common given name of 18,528 given names 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/leventeThe 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, “Levente” — the 66th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.