Levi — #12 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Levi

The Social Security Administration has registered 205,247 babies named Levi between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Levi currently holds the #12 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 9,861 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Levi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 77,978 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Levi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18,042 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Levi in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Levi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 205,247 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.