girls:
10 births since 2013
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
213 births since 1917
#4373 (5th percentile)
overall:
223 births since 1917
#7516 (3rd percentile)
The name Leven is the #7,516 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 223 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 2.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,373 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 213 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2013.
Leven first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Leven is available in 24 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Leven has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Leven reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #893) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leven ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 50.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Leven reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #961) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leven".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Leven. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Leven is pronounced as LEH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-vuhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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