girls:
267 births since 1887
#5449 (5th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1880
#2030 (56th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1880
#4345 (44th percentile)
The name Levy is the #4,345 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,997 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 43.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,030 (55.7% percentile) for all time with 3,730 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,449 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 267 births since 1887.
Levy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1887 for girls).
The name Levy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 61.4% of babies named Levy were boys.
For boys, Levy reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 10.4% percentile (ranked #833) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 126 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Levy ranks #846 for boys (7.1% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 30.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Levy reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #890) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Levy ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 78.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Levy".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Levi. View all variations of Levi.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Levy", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 11 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Levi" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Levi..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Levy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.0% confident that Levy is pronounced as LEH-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-vee, at 36.0% 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 EH1 V IY0) 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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