Lev is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Lev is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1104 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,103 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lev.
Lev is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Lev cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #916 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Lev, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Lev seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lev was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
224 babies were named Lev in 2022 - that's 1 in 747,343 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Lev ranked 929 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of having a man or boy named Lev in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Lev is registered in 19 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Lev live in Florida, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 27,180 men and boys in Florida for their name before you meet one who answers with Lev.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Lev is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Lev and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lev, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Violin
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lev
Lev
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
V
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
E
V
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lev sounds like this:
