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Lev

Boy's name · #1001 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Lev is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1971, it stood at #1001 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 3,000 boys have been named Lev along the way.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#26 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #50 in Slovenia (2025) · #155 in Netherlands (2025) · #174 in Poland (2025) · #451 in Austria (2025) · #561 in Switzerland (2025) · #676 in Ireland (2025) · #739 in Belgium (2025) · #885 in Canada (2025) · #953 in England & Wales (2025) · #977 in Sweden (2025) · #1,603 in France (2025) and 3 more.

Famous Levs

• Lev Landau — Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
• Lev Yashin — Soviet footballer (1929–1990)
• Lev Vygotsky — Soviet psychologist (1896–1934)
• Lev Kamenev — Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883–1936)
• Lev Gumilev — Soviet historian, ethnologist, and anthropologist (1912–1992)
• Lev Shestov — Russian existentialist philosopher (1866–1938)
• Lev Pontryagin — Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)
• Lev Kuleshov — Soviet filmmaker and film theorist (1899–1970)
• Lev Artsimovich — Soviet physicist (1909–1973)
• Lev Berg — Russian and Soviet scientist (1876–1950)

In stories & tradition

• Lev (Prince Myshkin) — Fictional character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot
• Lev Abalkin — Noon

What Levs become

Among 1,137 notable people named Lev:

Scientists & scholars appear 2.04× more often than among typical names — e.g. Lev Landau, Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968).

Similar names: Haziel · Levy · Scout · Zev · Ezrah · Lyam

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