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Boy's nameOrigin: biblicalIn Israel: steady

LeviIn Hebrew: לוי · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: לֵוִיRomanization: leví

Levi (Hebrew: לוי) is a boy's name of biblical origin. 5,217 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 208 boys and ranked #94. Its peak year was 2024, with 208 babies.

People in Israel
5,217
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
208
rank #94
Peak year
2024
208 babies
USA, 2025
9,642
rank #12

Writing and saying Levi

In Hebrew letters the name is לוי, read right to left. Levi is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "leví" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • Levi (the third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah)
  • a male given name, Levi and Levy
  • a surname
Uncertain; possibly transliterated from יִלָּוֶה (yillaweh, “he will join”), or possibly loaned from Minaean 𐩡𐩥𐩱 (lawiʾu, “priest”). More at Levi.

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Levi by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Levi: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Levi in English-speaking countries

Levi in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States20259,642#122022 (9,869)
United Kingdom2025568#1022025 (568)
England and Wales2025490#1072025 (490)
Scotland202537#1262022 (49)
Northern Ireland202541#522025 (41)
Ireland202571#862025 (71)
British Columbia202391#152021 (114)
Alberta2025153#62020 (153)
Quebec202593#752024 (93)
New South Wales2025324#82021 (339)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Levi has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Levi

How do you write Levi in Hebrew?

Levi is written לוי in Hebrew (with vowel points: לֵוִי). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "leví".

How many people in Israel are named Levi?

5,217 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name לוי: 8 women and 5,209 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Levi a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 99.8% of the people named לוי are men.

What does the name Levi mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "Levi (the third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah)" Etymology: Uncertain; possibly transliterated from יִלָּוֶה (yillaweh, “he will join”), or possibly loaned from Minaean 𐩡𐩥𐩱 (lawiʾu, “priest”). More at Levi.

Is Levi used outside Israel?

The name Levi appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 9,642 boys were given it in 2025 (#12), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 568 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.