Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
Origin: EnglishLevi is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin. It is the name of the biblical figure Levi, son of Jacob and founder of the Israelite tribe of Levi. The name is derived from the Hebrew verb לוה, meaning "to join" or "connect". Levi may refer to:
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Levi yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Levi is a smaller-scale name than most in this batch but a stable one: it peaked in 2022 at 9,861 births and sits at 9,513 in 2024, essentially flat over the past year and up 18% over the full decade — growth without the sharp swings seen in Theodore or Mateo.
The name has been recorded since 1880 and has held a fairly consistent, modest presence through most of that history, only recently climbing into the current top 12 rather than arriving as a sudden new entrant.
Its most commercially famous bearer, Levi Strauss, ties the name to 19th-century American manufacturing rather than entertainment or sport, an unusual anchor point among current top-15 names' famous-bearer lists, most of which lean toward recent actors or athletes like Zachary Levi, who also appears here as a more contemporary reference.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 112 | #118 |
| 1881 | 104 | #116 |
| 1882 | 105 | #133 |
| 1883 | 85 | #154 |
| 1884 | 91 | #150 |
| 1885 | 79 | #167 |
| 1886 | 97 | #139 |
| 1887 | 75 | #171 |
| 1888 | 91 | #164 |
| 1889 | 88 | #157 |
| 1890 | 74 | #181 |
| 1891 | 68 | #186 |
| 1892 | 77 | #198 |
| 1893 | 75 | #195 |
| 1894 | 68 | #205 |
| 1895 | 72 | #200 |
| 1896 | 68 | #220 |
| 1897 | 59 | #220 |
| 1898 | 61 | #226 |
| 1899 | 63 | #210 |
| 1900 | 95 | #199 |
| 1901 | 41 | #269 |
| 1902 | 55 | #250 |
| 1903 | 68 | #219 |
| 1904 | 68 | #229 |
| 1905 | 63 | #247 |
| 1906 | 56 | #265 |
| 1907 | 61 | #270 |
| 1908 | 75 | #245 |
| 1909 | 82 | #243 |
| 1910 | 69 | #300 |
| 1911 | 87 | #284 |
| 1912 | 116 | #355 |
| 1913 | 137 | #355 |
| 1914 | 193 | #329 |
| 1915 | 218 | #365 |
| 1916 | 214 | #377 |
| 1917 | 203 | #399 |
| 1918 | 251 | #372 |
| 1919 | 285 | #335 |
| 1920 | 255 | #375 |
| 1921 | 270 | #369 |
| 1922 | 264 | #369 |
| 1923 | 233 | #388 |
| 1924 | 230 | #404 |
| 1925 | 232 | #392 |
| 1926 | 251 | #368 |
| 1927 | 250 | #370 |
| 1928 | 189 | #434 |
| 1929 | 222 | #391 |
| 1930 | 196 | #421 |
| 1931 | 202 | #395 |
| 1932 | 192 | #407 |
| 1933 | 169 | #421 |
| 1934 | 196 | #395 |
| 1935 | 183 | #403 |
| 1936 | 169 | #430 |
| 1937 | 168 | #436 |
| 1938 | 201 | #400 |
| 1939 | 166 | #442 |
| 1940 | 164 | #454 |
| 1941 | 167 | #458 |
| 1942 | 182 | #459 |
| 1943 | 177 | #466 |
| 1944 | 183 | #449 |
| 1945 | 179 | #445 |
| 1946 | 174 | #486 |
| 1947 | 184 | #496 |
| 1948 | 187 | #487 |
| 1949 | 177 | #500 |
| 1950 | 192 | #486 |
| 1951 | 231 | #444 |
| 1952 | 218 | #470 |
| 1953 | 192 | #505 |
| 1954 | 214 | #497 |
| 1955 | 208 | #509 |
| 1956 | 198 | #530 |
| 1957 | 177 | #580 |
| 1958 | 182 | #575 |
| 1959 | 185 | #576 |
| 1960 | 176 | #589 |
| 1961 | 170 | #609 |
| 1962 | 164 | #605 |
| 1963 | 154 | #633 |
| 1964 | 162 | #616 |
| 1965 | 106 | #723 |
| 1966 | 148 | #610 |
| 1967 | 150 | #613 |
| 1968 | 138 | #646 |
| 1969 | 133 | #686 |
| 1970 | 147 | #681 |
| 1971 | 198 | #584 |
| 1972 | 211 | #550 |
| 1973 | 207 | #544 |
| 1974 | 278 | #477 |
| 1975 | 393 | #395 |
| 1976 | 420 | #374 |
| 1977 | 445 | #369 |
| 1978 | 536 | #326 |
| 1979 | 963 | #233 |
| 1980 | 1,057 | #226 |
| 1981 | 1,366 | #182 |
| 1982 | 1,136 | #213 |
| 1983 | 961 | #233 |
| 1984 | 1,034 | #219 |
| 1985 | 1,145 | #209 |
| 1986 | 1,162 | #209 |
| 1987 | 1,394 | #193 |
| 1988 | 1,611 | #174 |
| 1989 | 1,783 | #169 |
| 1990 | 1,718 | #180 |
| 1991 | 1,725 | #186 |
| 1992 | 1,913 | #166 |
| 1993 | 1,978 | #162 |
| 1994 | 2,105 | #157 |
| 1995 | 2,268 | #154 |
| 1996 | 2,126 | #163 |
| 1997 | 2,225 | #156 |
| 1998 | 2,177 | #158 |
| 1999 | 2,171 | #170 |
| 2000 | 2,200 | #172 |
| 2001 | 2,197 | #171 |
| 2002 | 2,341 | #164 |
| 2003 | 2,372 | #166 |
| 2004 | 2,620 | #154 |
| 2005 | 2,761 | #141 |
| 2006 | 3,029 | #133 |
| 2007 | 3,213 | #132 |
| 2008 | 3,699 | #116 |
| 2009 | 5,023 | #85 |
| 2010 | 6,025 | #70 |
| 2011 | 6,661 | #66 |
| 2012 | 7,243 | #55 |
| 2013 | 7,447 | #49 |
| 2014 | 8,077 | #45 |
| 2015 | 8,336 | #42 |
| 2016 | 8,113 | #42 |
| 2017 | 8,477 | #36 |
| 2018 | 8,537 | #33 |
| 2019 | 9,062 | #25 |
| 2020 | 9,091 | #18 |
| 2021 | 9,553 | #12 |
| 2022 | 9,861 | #12 |
| 2023 | 9,384 | #12 |
| 2024 | 9,513 | #12 |
