Levi

maleBiblical Hebrew

Possibly means 'joined' or 'attached' in Hebrew, referencing Levi (third son of Jacob and Leah) as ancestor of the Levite priestly tribe. Behind the Name flags the etymology itself as uncertain.

Origin: Biblical Hebrew

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #8 in New South Wales, Australia in 2025. See regions.

Levi: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #8, reached in 2025.

7registrars recorded it
219times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#8highest recorded position
31groupings it qualifies for
28names it appears alongside

What stands out in Levi's record

Held a top-100 place for 36 years running. Names by top-100 run
Appears alongside 28 other names across 6 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships

LEE-vy/ˈliːvaɪ/

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Data Confidence

Evidence: ModerateCompleteness: SubstantialEditorial review: 2026-07-21

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Because: backed by officially or academically authoritative sources, recently verified, popularity data covers multiple regions.

Source authority

Averaged from the real per-claim source-authority assessments already computed for this name's meaning/origin/pronunciation/popularity evidence.

Independent corroboration

Averaged from the real per-claim supporting-source counts already computed for this name's evidence.

See full evidence assessment (8 dimensions, 1 not yet tracked)

Source agreement

No recorded source disagreement for this name's meanings or origins.

Recency

Calculated from how long ago this record was last verified (2026-07-21), against a 270-day staleness threshold.

Geographic relevance

Calculated from the number of geographies with official popularity data (7) — broader official coverage means the evidence base is relevant to more of where the name is actually used.

Completeness

Calculated from how many of the expected data sections (variants, similar names, popularity, notable usage, IPA pronunciation) are actually populated for this name.

Direct observation vs. inference

Averaged from the real per-claim direct-observation-vs-inference ratios already computed for this name's evidence.

Identity & variant resolution quality

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Name Characteristics

How these are calculated

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Pronunciation clarity

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Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling: shorter names with fewer irregular letter clusters score higher. A disclosed formula, not an editorial opinion — and not a confidence measurement.

Recorded regional spread

Derived from how many geographies' official statistics record this name. It measures where the name is registered, not how well-known it feels to people living there.

International spread

Derived from the same official statistical coverage, scaled to reflect how widely the name crosses national datasets. Not a measure of how easily it is understood in another language.

Trend stability

Derived from the name's traditional/modern classification and its current popularity trend direction.

Overview

Origin: Biblical Hebrew
Meaning: Possibly means 'joined' or 'attached' in Hebrew, referencing Levi (third son of Jacob and Leah) as ancestor of the Levite priestly tribe. Behind the Name flags the etymology itself as uncertain.
Pronunciation: LEE-vy
Syllables: 2
Common nicknames: None recorded
Classification: Traditional & modern
Gender usage: male
Language family: Biblical Hebrew

Popularity

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#473
1997	#473
1998	#522
1999	#594
2000	#664
2001	#753
2002	#785
2003	#965
2004	#883
2005	#824
2006	#835
2007	#1296
2008	#2150
2009	#1837
2010	#1731
2011	#2025
2012	#2969
2014	#2862
2015	#2070
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2018	#3178
2019	#2286
2020	#3899
2021	#5581
2022	#3533
2023	#4056
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 48 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2025: #8 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #83 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #86 among boys in Norway, #107 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 7 national registrars across 7 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #332 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #107 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Levi appears in 8 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 48 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,427 births with the name.

Levi across 8 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Levi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#332 (1945)	#65 (2019)	#86 (2025)	48 of 81	1,427 (1945–2025)	113 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#235 (1988)	#83 (2025)	#83 (2025)	29 of 38	602 (1988–2025)	71 (2025)
New Zealand · Boys	#98 (1990)	#22 (2014)	#28 (2023)	34 of 34	3,711 (1990–2023)	183 (2011)
England and Wales · Boys	#165 (1996)	#107 (2025)	#107 (2025)	30 of 30	10,421 (1996–2025)	490 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#473 (1996)	#473 (1996)	#3318 (2024)	28 of 29	601 (1996–2024)	60 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#241 (1999)	#63 (2023)	#84 (2024)	25 of 26	342 (1999–2024)	38 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#534 (1996)	#534 (1996)	#883 (2021)	2 of 26	6 (1996–2021)	3 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#97 (2004)	#8 (2025)	#8 (2025)	21 of 22	5,271 (2004–2025)	339 (2021)

Levi by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Levi in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	5	1 of 10	5
1950s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	15	3 of 10	5
1970s	13	3 of 10	4
1980s	21	4 of 10	5
1990s	76	10 of 10	8
2000s	165	10 of 10	17
2010s	653	10 of 10	65
2020sbusiest	475	6 of 10	79

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 79 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 30, from 83 to 113.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Levi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

What the record shows

Recorded by 7 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #8, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 36 years, 36 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 490 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1988, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Levi was ranked #8 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Leven · #3112, 10y
Levente · #508, 17y
Levi-James · #2319, 16y
Levin · #2425, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 7 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elsie · #8, 47y
Isaac · #8, 52y
Jasmine · #13, 46y
Luca · #3, 43y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Alexander · #8, 77y
Annie · #8, 81y
Anthony · #8, 77y
Elsie · #8, 47y

Comparisons involving Levi

Existing comparison pages where Levi and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Levi in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Finn vs Levi
Finn and Levi changed places 14 times in New Zealand · Boys between 1998 and 2023, ending at #32 and #28.
Finn · Levi · 26 shared years, 1998–2023 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2023 New Zealand ranking
Harry vs Levi
Harry and Levi changed places 12 times in New Zealand · Boys between 1994 and 2023, ending at #40 and #28.
Harry · Levi · 30 shared years, 1994–2023 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2023 New Zealand ranking
Leo vs Levi
Leo and Levi both rose over the same years in 5 registrars — New South Wales, Australia · Boys; New Zealand · Boys; Northern Ireland · Boys; Norway · Boys; Republic of Ireland · Boys. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Leo · Levi · 42 shared years, 1953–2025 · Moved together in several countries

Closest long-running positions

Names that stayed close to Levi within one registrar's list over many years. A gap measured inside that list, never across registrars.

Elijah vs Levi
Across 21 shared years in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Elijah and Levi averaged 8.3 places apart, ending at #7 and #8.
Elijah · Levi · 21 shared years, 2004–2025 · Closest over the longest run
See the 2025 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Levi vs Jackson
Across 31 shared years in New Zealand · Boys, Levi and Jackson averaged 10.7 places apart, ending at #28 and #41.
Levi · Jackson · 31 shared years, 1993–2023 · Closest over the longest run
See the 2023 New Zealand ranking
Lachlan vs Levi
Across 26 shared years in New Zealand · Boys, Lachlan and Levi averaged 12.1 places apart, ending at #34 and #28.
Lachlan · Levi · 26 shared years, 1997–2023 · Closest over the longest run
See the 2023 New Zealand ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Levi and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Levi vs Braxton
In New Zealand · Boys, Levi moved into the top 50 at #32 in 2016 as Braxton fell out of it to #70, having been #34 the year before.
Levi · Braxton · 11 shared years, 2012–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2016 New Zealand ranking
Levi vs Jayden
In New Zealand · Boys, Levi moved into the top 50 at #32 in 2016 as Jayden fell out of it to #55, having been #39 the year before.
Levi · Jayden · 33 shared years, 1991–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2016 New Zealand ranking
Adam vs Levi
In New Zealand · Boys, Levi moved into the top 50 at #35 in 2004 as Adam fell out of it to #53, having been #37 the year before.
Adam · Levi · 34 shared years, 1990–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2004 New Zealand ranking

Compared inside New South Wales, Australia lists

Pairs involving Levi measured in New South Wales, Australia's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Levi at its highest position.

Henry vs Levi
Across 21 shared years in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Henry and Levi averaged 12.7 places apart, ending at #6 and #8.
Henry · Levi · 21 shared years, 2004–2025 · Closest over the longest run
See the 2025 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Levi vs Nathan
In New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Levi moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2009 as Nathan fell out of it to #53, having been #39 the year before.
Levi · Nathan · 13 shared years, 2004–2018 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2009 New South Wales, Australia ranking

New South Wales, Australia overview→

Levi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Levi without appearing here.

Levi moved ahead of

Kirsten
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.
Donna
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Brittany
In 2023 they stood at #3533 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #4843.
Kerry
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Levi

Eabha
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #1313.
Tania
In 2015 they stood at #2070 and #2195 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #1689.
Karin
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3192.
Carol
In 2020 they stood at #2286 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Levi

Anders
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Levi

Aksel
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Daniel
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 and Daniel from #280 to #66.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Levi went from #332 to #86 and David from #167 to #88.

Meaning & Origin

Possibly means 'joined' or 'attached' in Hebrew, referencing Levi (third son of Jacob and Leah) as ancestor of the Levite priestly tribe. Behind the Name flags the etymology itself as uncertain.

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Biblical Hebrew

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Other names with a researched meaning and origin →

Where Levi is officially recorded

7 official registrars have recorded Levi, between 1945 and 2025, in 48 of those 81 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1945–2025	48	#65 in 2019
Republic of Ireland	1988–2025	29	#83 in 2025
New Zealand	1990–2023	34	#22 in 2014
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#107 in 2025
Northern Ireland	1999–2024	25	#63 in 2023
New South Wales, Australia	2004–2025	21	#8 in 2025
Scotland	2024	1	#130 in 2024

Its high point came 11 years earlier in New Zealand (2014) than in Republic of Ireland (2025).

No registrar recorded it for 8 years after 1953; it appears again in 1962.

Variants

No spelling variants or nicknames recorded yet.

Similar Names

No similar names recorded yet for this name.

Similarity is a demonstration score — see methodology.

Spelling

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling — see Name Characteristics above.

No commonly used alternate spellings recorded.

Pronunciation

LEE-vy/ˈliːvaɪ/

Syllables: 2
Ease: easy

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Where Levi Is Recorded

National statistical agencies have recorded Levi in these places. This shows where the name is used — not where it comes from, and not that it carries particular cultural significance there.

New South Wales, AustraliaEngland and WalesNorthern IrelandScotlandRepublic of IrelandNorwayNew Zealand

Notable Usage

No safely-sourced notable usage recorded for this name yet.

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Levi

Levi at a glance

What stands out in Levi's record

Overview

Popularity

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Levi across 8 official records

Levi by decade in Norway · Boys

Levi appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Levi

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Levi

Longest shared records

Closest long-running positions

Order changes

Compared inside New South Wales, Australia lists

Levi and the names beside it

Levi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Levi

Moved the opposite way to Levi

Moved the same way as Levi

Meaning & Origin

Where Levi is officially recorded

Variants

Similar Names

Spelling

Pronunciation

Where Levi Is Recorded

Notable Usage

Sibling & Surname Compatibility

Levi at a glance

What stands out in Levi's record

Levi across 8 official records

Levi by decade in Norway · Boys

Levi appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Levi

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Levi

Longest shared records

Closest long-running positions

Order changes

Compared inside New South Wales, Australia lists

Levi and the names beside it

Levi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Levi

Moved the opposite way to Levi

Moved the same way as Levi