Levon

Where Levon comes from

Levon 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. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Levon Ter-Petrosyan born
    first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998
  3. 1953
    Peak, #878
    67 babies named Levon — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,403.
  5. 1982
    Levon Aronian born
    Armenian-American chess player
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Levon Aronian · Armenian-American chess player, born 1982
  • Levon Ter-Petrosyan · first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998, born 1945
  • Levon Helm · American musician, 1940–2012
  • Levon Mirzoyan · Soviet politician, 1897–1939
  • Levon Julfalakyan · Armenian wrestler, born 1964

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.