girls:
1.3k births since 1929
#4436 (22nd percentile)
boys:
195.6k births since 1880
#184 (96th percentile)
overall:
196.9k births since 1880
#395 (95th percentile)
The name Levi is the #395 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 196,877 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #184 (96.0% percentile) for all time with 195,590 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,436 (22.4% percentile) for all time with 1,287 births since 1929.
Levi has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1929 for girls).
The name Levi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Levi reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 98.8% percentile (ranked #12) with 5,092 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5,254 births per million (ranked 98.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Levi is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #12 (98.8% percentile) with 5,104 births per million.
For girls, Levi reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 8.1% percentile (ranked #860) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 45 births per million (ranked 8.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2000, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Levi ranks #889 for girls (6.1% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 79.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Levi".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Levi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.9% confident that Levi is pronounced as LEE-vai, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-vee, at 27.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY1 V AY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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