Levitin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from eastern Slavic levit ‘Levite’ -F the possessive suffix -in (see Levy)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/lebitin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Levitin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 230K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 720Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 817K
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 Levitin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 179K (inferred from the name graph)
421 named לויטין, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Timor-Leste, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled לויטין in IL Israel, LV Latvia, BY Belarus and 1 more.
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)from eastern Slavic levit ‘Levite’ -F the possessive suffix -in (see Levy).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Levitin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 421as לויטין | 1 in 21K | 421 | לויטין | 18 |
| US United States | 407 | 1 in 817K | 428 | Levitin | 162 |
| LV Latvia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | לויטין | 2 |
| RU Russia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Levitin | 20 |
| EG Egypt | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | לויטין | 2 |
| BY Belarus | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | לויטין | 1 |
| TL Timor-Leste | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Levitin | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 1 |
421 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)Levitin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, inflection of levitar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, spacer, spreader
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)- Veniamin Levitinb. 1905Soviet cinematographer (1905-1966)
- Yuri Levitinb. 1912UASoviet Russian composer (1912-1993)
- Anatoli Levitinb. 1922RURussian artist (1922-2018)
- Sonia Levitinb. 1934USAmerican writer
- Karl Levitinb. 1936RUSoviet and Russian journalist, science popularizer, science fiction writer
- Michael Z. Levitinb. 1945RUsoviet and Russian theatre director
- Igor Levitinb. 1952RURussian politician
- Daniel Levitinb. 1957USAmerican psychologist
- Nicholas Levitinactor
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 428 | #52,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 407 | #51,176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 376 | #51,945 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Levitin mean, and where does it come from?
- from eastern Slavic levit ‘Levite’ -F the possessive suffix -in (see Levy). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Levitin?
- In Spanish /lebitin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Levitin have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 421 people named לויטין, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Levitin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 407 people named Levitin in 2010, about 1 in 817 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Levitin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/levitinThe 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, “Levitin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.