Leverne vs Levy
American parents have registered 4,256 Levys since 1880, against 1,472 Levernes. Levy is still ahead, with 126 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Leverne Levy
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 146 years in which either name was published, Levy for 122 years and Leverne for 24 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1880–1945 Levy ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1946–1965 Leverne ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1966–2025 Levy ahead, apart from one short spell
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Leverne | Levy | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,472 | 4,256 |
| Most in one year | 42 | 153 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 126 |
| Estimated living today | 570 | 2,700 |
| Median age today | 69 | 15 |
| Peak year | 1918 | 2021 |
| Best rank | 1,373rd boys | 1,635th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 1,699th |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 487 / 985 | 341 / 3,915 |
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 Levernes alive today are over 69; half the Levys are over 15. That is 54 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Leverne South Carolina (47.4×), North Carolina (5.4×)
- Levy Louisiana (8.2×), North Carolina (3.8×), South Carolina (3.5×)
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: Leverne and Levy.