Levi is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The first name Levi is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #36 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Levi, accounting for approximately 0.50 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 180,250 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Levi. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
The origin of the first name Levi is not clear. It may be a derivation of ‘yillaweh,’ which means ‘he will unite.’ Another conjecture is the simple meaning ‘priest’ due to the priestly tribe of Levites in ancient Judah. The name goes back to the biblical progenitor Levi.
Levi Celerio (1910 - 2002)
Levi Celerio was a Filipino composer, poet and lyricist. He is widely known for his folk and popular music and as the author of over 4,000 Filipino songs. He is considered one of the National Artists of the Philippines, the highest recognition given to an artist who has made a significant contribution to the development of Philippine art. He is the first Filipino to have written a full-length movie musical and to have penned a symphonic poem, both of which were premiered by the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.
Levi (Tribe of Levi)
Levi was one of the twelve sons of Jacob and one of the progenitors of the Levites in the Old Testament of the Bible. He was the son of Leah and Jacob and the brother of Judah, Simeon, Reuben and others. The Levites were a group of priests and temple servants in ancient Israel who were engaged in temple service and the care of the sacred objects. They were also responsible for maintaining order in the Temple and for instructing the people in God's laws. The Levites were descended from Levi, and it is said that God assigned them this service to bless Jacob and his descendants.
Levi Strauss (1829 - 1902)
Levi Strauss was a German-American entrepreneur who designed and produced the first jeans in the 19th century together with his business partner Jacob Davis. He was born in Bavaria, Germany and emigrated to the USA at the age of 18, where he began to work as a textile trader and initially worked mainly with gold miners who needed long-lasting and robust work trousers. In 1873, he began to manufacture jeans made of sturdy denim fabric and reinforced with bronze rivets. These jeans were sold under the name 'Levi's'.
Levi Woodbury (1789 - 1851)
Woodbury was an American jurist, politician and judge who served as US Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson (1831 - 1834) and as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court (1845 - 1851). He received a limited education but was able to teach himself law and began practicing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Woodbury was known for his strong devotion to the principles of the US Constitution and it was important to him to respect the text of the Constitution and the intent of the framers.
When you hear the name Levi, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Levi? Are you also called Levi? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
a ski resort in Finland, more precisely Kittilä in Lapland, known for its excellent skiing and snowboarding conditions and has been voted the best Finnish ski resort four times.
Levi Peak is a rocky mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand
There are two impact craters on the moon that bear the name Levi: 'Levi-Civita' and 'Rabbi Levi'.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Levi is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Levi has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2021 the name even made it to rank #11 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Levi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 9,853 boys were born and given the name Levi by their parents. That puts Levi at #12 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1965 - only 106 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 663 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Levi is one of them. However, Levi is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Alaska seem to particularly fancy this name – the 691 men called Levi who live here are 0,275% of all male residents and push their name up to #90 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Alaska. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 180,250 people with the name Levi. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Levi on position 189 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 four letters, the name Levi is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Levi 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 Levi, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Violin
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Levi
Levi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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I
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. Levi sounds like this:
