girls:
15 births since 1917
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
268 births since 1914
#4318 (6th percentile)
overall:
283 births since 1914
#7456 (4th percentile)
The name Levis is the #7,456 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 283 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,318 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 268 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1917.
Levis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Levis is available in 41 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (40 years for boys and 3 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 Levis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Levis reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #517) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Levis ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 31.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Levis reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #577) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Levis".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Levis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.0% confident that Levis is pronounced as LEE-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-vihs, at 36.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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