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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 287,744 of them was named Lev, which outranked 23.4% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,713Zyionna7
- #12,713Zyleah7
- #12,713Zynique7
- #14,124Lev6
- #14,124Aabriella6
- #14,124Aaditri6
- #14,124Aafiya6
- #15,902Aadilynn5
- #15,902Aafiyah5
- #15,902Aaheli5
Tied with 1,777 names at #14,124; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 13,221 of them was named Lev, which outranked 90.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,287Linkin141
- #1,287Saint141
- #1,287Tariq141
- #1,293Lev140
- #1,293Abdulrahman140
- #1,293Calum140
- #1,293Clinton140
- #1,300Aamir139
- #1,300Aubrey139
- #1,300Carver139
Tied with 6 names at #1,293; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.