Lev

Where Lev comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lev.

Lev through the years
  1. 1908
    Lev Landau born
    Soviet theoretical physicist
  2. 1929
    Lev Yashin born
    Player for U.S.S.R
  3. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,907 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #999
    227 babies named Lev, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Lev Landau · Soviet theoretical physicist, 1908–1968
  • Lev Yashin · Player for U.S.S.R, 1929–1990
  • Lev Vygotsky · Soviet psychologist, 1896–1934
  • Lev Kamenev · Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician, 1883–1936
  • Lev Gumilev · Soviet academic, 1912–1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.