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Baby name
Lev
Boy
Origin of the name
Lev has two possible origins: the Hebrew lev, “heart,” and the Russian Lev, “lion,” the first name of the writer Leo Tolstoy.
Rising name
2,999births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 999rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Lev are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Lev is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Lev is most common in New York (3.8 times), Florida (2.5) and California (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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