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Levar vs Levern

American parents have registered 2,283 Leverns since 1880, against 2,026 Levars. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Levar against Levern, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Levar Levern

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Levern for 65 years and Levar for 46 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Levar Levern
Total US births 2,0262,283
Most in one year 53268
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,9001,100
Median age today 4569
Peak year 19771955
Best rank 342nd boys957th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19771912
Girls / boys 9 / 2,017382 / 1,901

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leverns alive today are over 69; half the Levars are over 45. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Levar and Levern.