Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Levis isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Levis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 293
- 278 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,141 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,141 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1938. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 494 as a first name in 2020; 1,706 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Levis’s family of names
In German usage, Levis as a surname has a related form in Levi. In Greek usage, Levis as a surname is a transliteration of Λεβής. In Greek usage, Levis as a surname is a transliteration of Λευής.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Levis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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