Meaning and history
Levi possibly means “joined” or “attached” in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, he is the third son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel, the Levites, who formed the Israelites’ priestly class; Moses and Aaron were members of this tribe. The name also appears in the New Testament as that of a son of Alphaeus, who may be the same person as the apostle Matthew. As an English Christian name, Levi came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
20062006: 3,030 births, rank #133
2007: 3,216 births, rank #131
2008: 3,702 births, rank #116
2009: 5,026 births, rank #85
2010: 6,027 births, rank #70
20112011: 6,661 births, rank #66
2012: 7,244 births, rank #55
2013: 7,449 births, rank #49
2014: 8,081 births, rank #45
2015: 8,337 births, rank #42
20162016: 8,118 births, rank #42
2017: 8,478 births, rank #35
2018: 8,540 births, rank #33
2019: 9,066 births, rank #25
2020: 9,098 births, rank #18
20212021: 9,559 births, rank #12
2022: 9,869 births, rank #12
2023: 9,399 births, rank #12
2024: 9,555 births, rank #12
20252025: 9,642 births, rank #12
Levi has made a dramatic comeback. After first appearing in the US records in 1880, it fell to #723 by 1965, before climbing to #12 in 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2022, with 9,869 births.