Levy

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Levy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 87 births. Its best rank was 530th, in 1894.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 870.01% of boys
Peak year: 2021102 births
Best rank: #530in 1894
Since 1880: 4,129people given the name

Babies named Levy, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

3,818 boys have been named Levy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 102 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 2010s alone account for 13%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 311 girls have also been given it, 7.5% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Levy
1880s	81
1890s	111
1900s	114
1910s	324
1920s	424
1930s	274
1940s	252
1950s	253
1960s	179
1970s	159
1980s	213
1990s	222
2000s	266
2010s	504
2020s	442

In 2021, its biggest year

Levy was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Levy

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.