Meaning not yet researched.
Lev: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 227 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,001 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 96% of babies named Lev in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,001 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lev: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 227 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,001 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 227 (2025).
In 2025, 227 US boys were named Lev, making it the 1,001st most common boys’ name of the year, up 35 places from #1,036 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 215 boys named Lev in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,001, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 227. For comparison, it was #1,295 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lev in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 3,083 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,290 babies named Lev.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,927 US boys were named Lev; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 227. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,525 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lev ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #414 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leo (262,124 babies since 1880), Leon (184,074 babies since 1880), Leonidas (10,281 babies since 1880) and Leone (6,637 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lew are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lew (2,208).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lev in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 42 | #414 | #599 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #453 | — |
| Colorado | 10 | #558 | — |
| California | 45 | #632 | #856 |
| Florida | 26 | #640 | #1,010 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #876 | #1,053 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #884 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #982 | #1,463 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,039 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,056 | #1,114 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,084 | #738 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,468 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,847 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,555 | 227 | #1,001 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,741 | 215 | #1,036 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,894 | 197 | #1,093 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,800 | 219 | #1,018 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,946 | 203 | #1,055 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,279 | 178 | #1,109 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,968 | 208 | #1,005 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,890 | 184 | #1,078 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,161 | 140 | #1,298 |
| 2016 | — | — | 156 | #1,214 |
| 2015 | — | — | 138 | #1,295 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,948 | 110 | #1,481 |
| 2013 | — | — | 98 | #1,583 |
| 2012 | — | — | 76 | #1,903 |
| 2011 | — | — | 75 | #1,882 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,129 | 69 | #1,993 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,275 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,660 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,849 |
| 2006 | — | — | 42 | #2,774 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,003 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,203 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,824 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,602 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,273 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,385 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,217 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,069 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,379 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,308 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,752 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,696 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,290 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,037 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,376 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,878 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,616 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,978 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,116 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,781 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,853 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,667 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,383 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,555 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,884 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,436 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,352 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).