Lev
Lev was given to 227 boys in 2025, #1,001 among boys’ names; 3,083 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,050 Americans named Lev and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lev by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lev mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lev is “a transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Лев (Lev).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lev?
#1,001 among boys’ names, 2025
Lev rose from #1,295 in 2015 to #1,001 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.13 per 1,000.
236 babies in 2025, the peak
Lev peaked in 2025, when 236 babies were given it (227 boys, #1,001 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 215 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 227 | #1,001 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 215 | #1,036 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 197 | #1,093 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,018 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 203 | #1,055 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 178 | #1,109 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 208 | #1,005 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 184 | #1,078 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,298 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,214 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | #1,295 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,583 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,902 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 75 | #1,881 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,992 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,659 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,848 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,773 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,999 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,198 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,820 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,595 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,266 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,211 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,063 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,374 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,302 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,746 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,690 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,369 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,380 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,882 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,434 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,350 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lev a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,083 Americans recorded as Lev, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 227 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lev: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lev, and how old are they?
3,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,083 Americans ever recorded as Lev. The median Lev alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 4,033 people named Lev (72 women and girls, 3,961 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,821 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lev rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 98 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 576 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lev born?
The states with the most babies named Lev are California, New York and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 45 | #632 | 1.5× |
| New York | 42 | #414 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 26 | #640 | 1.6× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #453 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 10 | #558 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,847 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 8 | #982 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #876 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,056 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,039 | 0.2× |
Where Lev is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lev is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lev with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lev
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 Lev and names like it
- Compare Lev and BastianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLev peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lev since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lev.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lev alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.