Levy

#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #1,699 for boys in 2025, 96 births
Given to boys 92.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
1894 · 15 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,915
since 1880

Levy over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201880peak #1,147, 1887peak #521, 1894girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,54630#1,69996
2024#3,51644#1,83388
2023#3,52544#2,07871
2022#3,89338#1,79291
2021#3,15751#1,635102
2020#4,45330#1,70791
2019#5,98620#2,42155
2018#6,52118#2,12266
2017#7,09216#2,21760
2016#7,60215#2,30557
2015#11,8358#2,60047
2014#16,5135#2,51649
2013—#2,80441
2012#9,10912#2,63246
2011—#2,54748
2010—#3,18135
2009—#3,47631
2008—#3,56130
2007—#4,12724
2006#17,1685#3,22733
2005—#3,31930
2004—#3,45627
2003—#4,61617
2002—#3,34926
2001—#3,14328
2000—#3,92220
1999—#3,27924
1998—#3,39022
1997—#3,87717
1996—#2,74727
1995—#4,05215
1994—#3,10922
1993—#2,57728
1992—#2,59927
1991—#3,22419
1990—#2,95221
1989—#2,78422
1988—#2,19728
1987—#2,64120
1986—#2,89117
1985—#2,50420
1984—#2,23223
1983—#2,67617
1982—#2,59618
1981—#2,20423
1980—#2,11025
1979—#2,66917
1978—#2,92914
1977—#2,66516
1976—#1,93225
1975—#2,54016
1974—#2,54915
1973—#2,85712
1972—#2,24317
1971—#2,68613
1970—#2,50914
1969—#1,97718
1968—#2,44512
1967—#1,60923
1966—#2,04315
1965—#1,91817
1964—#1,79320
1963—#1,90218
1962—#2,11715
1961—#1,82320
1960—#1,77221
1959—#1,58825
1958—#1,67722
1957—#1,95217
1956—#1,44329
1955—#1,64622
1954—#1,62822
1953—#1,63022
1952—#1,32332
1951—#1,34430
1950—#1,27232
1949—#1,12839
1948—#1,65620
1947—#1,51924
1946—#1,69218
1945—#1,29626
1944—#1,28227
1943—#1,17034
1942—#1,62919
1941—#1,44622
1940—#1,39723
1939—#1,45821
1938—#1,14932
1937—#1,26528
1936—#1,41722
1935—#1,04038
1934—#1,55120
1933—#1,58619
1932—#1,38725
1931—#1,06540
1930—#1,33029
1929—#1,23732
1928—#1,14738
1927—#1,19836
1926—#1,05044
1925—#1,07342
1924—#1,15239
1923—#1,08743
1922—#94954
1921—#1,02646
1920—#97550
1919—#93851
1918—#93351
1917—#1,06239
1916—#1,15732
1915—#96242
1914—#1,15325
1913—#1,11221
1912—#89225
1911—#73219
1910—#67719
1909—#1,0209
1908—#87710
1907—#54020
1906—#64014
1905—#8369
1904—#8748
1903—#8468
1902—#7949
1901—#68310
1900—#60317
1899—#8577
1898—#70110
1897—#55614
1896—#67411
1895—#52915
1894—#52115
1893—#1,0355
1892—#54714
1891—#7667
1890—#53313
1889—#7228
1888—#55413
1887#1,1475#7527
1886—#6479
1885—#7008
1884—#7647
1883—#7207
1882—#6529
1881—#7067
1880—#8096
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Levy was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1893, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Levy is popular in 1880

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Levy
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 134 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #1,699)
  • 8 spots since 2020 (#1,707 → #1,699)
  • 901 spots since 2015 (#2,600 → #1,699)
  • Biggest jump: 514 spots in 1894 (#1,035 → #521)
  • Biggest drop: 488 spots in 1893 (#547 → #1,035)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1894 at #521 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 36 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1894–1908
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,341
  • Highest: 1 in 7,341 boys born in 1907 were named Levy (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 17,792 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #521 in 1894, was only 1 in 7,718 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 13.8% of all boys named Levy (539) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s81#554 (1888)#703
1890s111#521 (1894)#672
1900s114#540 (1907)#771
1910s324#677 (1910)#962
1920s424#949 (1922)#1,089
1930s274#1,040 (1935)#1,325
1940s252#1,128 (1949)#1,422
1950s253#1,272 (1950)#1,550
1960s179#1,609 (1967)#1,940
1970s159#1,932 (1976)#2,558
1980s213#2,110 (1980)#2,484
1990s222#2,577 (1993)#3,181
2000s266#3,143 (2001)#3,620
2010s504#2,122 (2018)#2,535
2020s539#1,635 (2021)#1,791

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.

Levy in 1880

boys
#809
6 births · 1 in 18,415 boys

Top boys' names in 1880

  1. #1John9,655
  2. #2William9,532
  3. #3James5,927
  4. #4Charles5,348
  5. #5George5,126
  6. #6Frank3,242
  7. #7Joseph2,632
  8. #8Thomas2,534
  9. #9Henry2,444
  10. #10Robert2,415
  11. #809Levy6
More about 1880

boys

110,490 boys got a published name in 1880; 1 in 18,415 of them was named Levy, which outranked 23.5% of the 1,058 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 44.2% of boys (8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Levy
  1. #745Watt7
  2. #745Weaver7
  3. #745Wilton7
  4. #809Levy6
  5. #809Adolf6
  6. #809Albin6
  7. #809Albion6
  8. #909Ab5
  9. #909Abbott5
  10. #909Agustus5

Tied with 99 names at #809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

See the top 100 for 1880 →