Levis
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Levis is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burundi than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Person from Levis in northern France; or anglicization of Jewish surnames such as Levi and Levinson.
- CACanada≈1 in 156K(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 6.1K
- VEVenezuela1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Burundi (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burundi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Levis in northern France; or anglicization of Jewish surnames such as Levi and Levinson.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Levis 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.
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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)
Levis 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 English, from OE Lēofhyse; first attested Lefhese 1066 ICC (C)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
from Old French vis ‘(spiral) staircase’, with the Old Picard feminine article le; perhaps a nickname for someone whose house had such a feature.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic surname such as Levy or Levinson.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, descendants of the Israelite tribe of Levi; Levites
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, da Lodovico
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
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)
- Charlie Levisb. 1860USAmerican baseball player (1860-1926)
- Max Levisb. 1863DEGerman painter and portraitist (1863–1930)
- Joseph Levisb. 1905USAmerican fencer (1905–2005)
- Diego Levisb. 1954ARArgentinian writer
- John Levisb. 1956USAmerican linguist and editor (born 1956)
- Jesse Levisb. 1968USAmerican baseball player
- Patrick Levisb. 1982USAmerican actor
- No Way Joseb. 1988DOnot in their usual nameDominican-American professional wrestler
- Brett Levisb. 1993CACanadian association football player
- Will Levisb. 1999USAmerican football player (born 1999)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,369 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Levis mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Levis in northern France; or anglicization of Jewish surnames such as Levi and Levinson. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Levis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Levis in Burundi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Levis?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,725 people named Levis, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/levisThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Levis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.