Levinas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leβinas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Levinas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 188K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2M
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
37 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Levinas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 37 | 1 in 1.2M | 37 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 5 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Levinas | 63 |
37 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lev Levinb. 1870UAnot in their usual nameRussian physician (1870-1938)
- J. F. Normanob. 1887USnot in their usual nameRussian economic historian (1887–1945)
- Emmanuel Lévinasb. 1906FRJewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher (1906-1995)
- Vladimir Levinb. 1929RUnot in their usual nameSoviet engineer
- Leanid Levinb. 1936BYnot in their usual nameSoviet-Belarusian architect (1936-2014)
- Vladimir Levinb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameSoviet mathematician
- Michaël Levinasb. 1949FRFrench composer
- Danielle Cohen-Levinasb. 1959FRFrench musicologist, pianist and philosopher
- Vladimir Levinb. 1967RUnot in their usual nameRussian computer hacker
- Artem Levinb. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian kickboxer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 37 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #202,596 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #228,253 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #81,433 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Levinas?
- A machine transcription gives /leβinas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Levinas have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 37 people named Levinas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Levinas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Levinas is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Levinas?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 37 people named Levinas, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Levinas?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/levinasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Levinas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.