Lev

Where Lev comes from

Lev hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  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, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #999
    227 babies named Lev — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.