Leva
Leva was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,625 among girls’ names; 823 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leva?
#12,625 among girls’ names, 2025
Leva entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,625 in 2025.
33 babies in 1921, the peak
Leva peaked in 1921, when 33 girls were given it, #1,422 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,625 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,894 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,340 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,674 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,082 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,648 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,893 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,087 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,238 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,734 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 6 | #4,985 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,888 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,839 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,540 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,947 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,048 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,733 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,040 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,110 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,063 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,992 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,320 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,051 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,787 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,574 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,892 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,965 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,846 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,244 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,788 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,306 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,444 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,960 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,226 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,231 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,422 | 26.8 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,533 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,721 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,518 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,744 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,767 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,006 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,577 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,722 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,671 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,144 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,703 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,681 | 23.0 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,312 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,017 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 20 | #830 | 67.7 |
| 1905 | 19 | #861 | 65.2 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,428 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,510 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 14 | #956 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 20 | #734 | 83.6 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,276 | 33.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,067 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 13 | #994 | 50.2 |
| 1897 | 12 | #957 | 51.2 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,265 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 14 | #877 | 59.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,604 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 11 | #937 | 51.7 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,562 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 11 | #868 | 59.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,431 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,081 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,090 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 9 | #827 | 61.7 |
| 1884 | 9 | #770 | 69.8 |
| 1883 | 6 | #873 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leva, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Leva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 5 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 330 people named Leva (254 women and girls, 76 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,412 babies since 1880, Leva is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 32 babies (22%), 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 Leva
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 Leva and names like it
- Compare Leva and LeviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeva peaked in 1921.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leva since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Leva.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Leva alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.