Lev
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #999 for boys in 2025, 227 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 227 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,999since 1971
Lev over time
Rank among boys' names. Lev has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #999 | 227 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #1,035 | 215 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #1,088 | 197 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #1,015 | 219 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,054 | 203 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #1,109 | 178 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #1,004 | 208 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,077 | 184 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #1,293 | 140 |
| 2016 | — | #1,208 | 156 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,287 | 138 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #1,473 | 110 |
| 2013 | — | #1,578 | 98 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,891 | 76 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,866 | 75 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,986 | 69 |
| 2009 | — | #2,252 | 58 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,632 | 47 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,811 | 42 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,744 | 42 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,941 | 23 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,780 | 35 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,395 | 13 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,299 | 25 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,185 | 15 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
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| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lev! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Lev is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#529 · 1 in 3,130
- Florida#553 · 1 in 3,341
- New Jersey#658 · 1 in 4,368
- Illinois#715 · 1 in 4,554
- California#835 · 1 in 7,023
Best ever in a state: #132 in District of Columbia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #529 | 28 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Florida | #553 | 27 | 1 in 3,341 |
| New Jersey | #658 | 9 | 1 in 4,368 |
| Illinois | #715 | 12 | 1 in 4,554 |
| California | #835 | 27 | 1 in 7,023 |
| Ohio | #914 | 8 | 1 in 6,811 |
| Virginia | #1,023 | 5 | 1 in 7,733 |
| Texas | #1,564 | 10 | 1 in 16,925 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lev
- 36 spots since 2024 (#1,035 → #999)
- 110 spots since 2020 (#1,109 → #999)
- 288 spots since 2015 (#1,287 → #999)
- Biggest jump: 36 spots in 2025 (#1,035 → #999)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2025 at #999 (227 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 7,525 boys born in 2025 were named Lev (0.01%)
- 41.8% of all boys named Lev (1,254) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #3,724 (1976) | #4,687 |
| 1980s | 37 | #3,966 (1982) | #5,102 |
| 1990s | 112 | #4,185 (1996) | #5,326 |
| 2000s | 317 | #2,252 (2009) | #3,600 |
| 2010s | 1,254 | #1,004 (2019) | #1,466 |
| 2020s | 1,239 | #999 (2025) | #1,050 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lev in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 146,959 of them was named Lev, which outranked 48.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,406Zoiee12
- #8,406Zona12
- #8,406Zyia12
- #8,953Lev11
- #8,953Aahna11
- #8,953Aaryah11
- #8,953Aaryana11
- #9,546Aashna10
- #9,546Abree10
- #9,546Abria10
Tied with 592 names at #8,953; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 9,697 of them was named Lev, which outranked 92.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,106Deshawn179
- #1,106Raheem179
- #1,106Yadiel179
- #1,109Lev178
- #1,109Shlomo178
- #1,111Boaz177
- #1,111Kooper177
- #1,111Maddux177
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.