Levan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, from French le vent ‘the wind’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/le̞vän/(machine-generated) Georgian · model-generated · read from ლევან
Levan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. Levan is also written Леван in Cyrillic and ლევან in Georgian.
- PLPoland1 in 29K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 203K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 270Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Levan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
27,328 named ლევან
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Levan in other scripts: Cyrillic and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Леван in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Levan
- Georgian:/le̞vän/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, from French le vent ‘the wind’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Levan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #8 | 27,328as ლევან | 1 in 146 | 27K | Levan | 115 |
| RU Russia | #658 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | register #796 | Леван | 136 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,325 | 1 in 29K | 1.3K | Levan | 19 |
| US United States | — | 715 | 1 in 465K | 4.6K | Levan | 303 |
| IN India | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 6 | Levan | 14 |
| UA Ukraine | #900 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Леван | 19 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 173K | 85 | Леван | 26 |
27,328 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling ლევან. 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Levan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, to be ready, done (one has gotten over it successfully)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular passive past participle of levati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A homopolysaccharide composed of D-fructofuranosyl.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of levar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, apocopic form of levano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Levan Gabriadzeb. 1969RUGeorgian-Russian actor and director (born 1969)
- Cedric Richmondb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1973)
- Levan Kobiashvilib. 1977GEPresident of the Georgian Football Federation, Former football player, Member of Parliament of Georgia
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Levan mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, from French le vent ‘the wind’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Levan?
- In the etymology graph, Leo, Leoncio and Léo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Levan?
- In Georgian /le̞vän/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Levan a male or female name?
- Levan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- Which countries have the most people named Levan?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named ლევან, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Poland, United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Levan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Levan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Levan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,325 people named Levan in 2026, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Levan compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Levan is the 8th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/levanThe 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, “Levan” — ranked 4th in Georgia (Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.