Leevi
Leevi was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,202 among boys’ names; 812 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leevi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leevi mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Leevi is “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew” Its etymology gives the sense “loyal, faithful” (meaning).
From Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (lēwî), possibly meaning “loyal, faithful”.
/ˈleːʋi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leevi?
#4,202 among boys’ names, 2025
Leevi fell from #3,003 in 2015 to #4,202 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 14.6 per million.
57 babies in 2013, the peak
Leevi peaked in 2013, when 57 boys were given it, #2,266 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,202 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,802 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,673 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,375 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,333 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,498 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,400 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,139 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,923 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,197 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,003 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,448 | 27.1 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,266 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,590 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,144 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,458 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,882 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,664 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,197 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,613 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,178 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,354 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,742 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,591 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,545 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,201 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,882 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,091 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,779 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,860 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,362 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,431 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,246 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,024 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,763 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,940 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,678 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,009 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,216 | 3.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,864 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,624 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leevi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leevi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leevi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leevi, and how old are they?
An estimated 801 Americans named Leevi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Leevi (27 women and girls, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 223,058 babies since 1880, Leevi is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 9,883 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leevi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leevi and names like it
- Compare Leevi and LeviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Leevi.
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