Lev is a distinctive choice, ranked #1162 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Lev in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1162
About the Name Lev
Lev is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 473 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #910 in 2023 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a regular feature in UK records since 1998.
Lev is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Lev
Unlikely. With around 24 UK babies named Lev per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Lev in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Lev is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 473 places over the last five years to #1162 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Lev is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Lev include: Lev Vinokur — Lev Vinokur is an Israeli figure skater.; Lev Parnas — Lev Parnas is a Soviet-born American businessman and former associate of Rudy Giuliani..
Lev does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Levs in the wild.
24
UK babies named Lev (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 473 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Lev
Likely around 1 other Lev in the class
UK Popularity (1998–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Lev
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a deputy premier of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1926.
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Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman (Russian: Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман; 25 July 1907 – 13 May 1955) was a Soviet MGB officer, notorious for his brutality, who was executed for using torture to extract false confessions from prisoners. His victims included Marshal Blyukher, the Colonel general Grigory Shtern, the writer Isaac Babel and the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Lev Parnas is a Soviet-born American businessman and former associate of Rudy Giuliani. Parnas, Giuliani, Igor Fruman, John Solomon, Yuriy Lutsenko, Dmytro Firtash and his allies, Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, were involved in creating the false Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, which was part of the Trump–Ukraine scandal's efforts to damage Joe Biden.
Lev Petrovich Gor'kov was a Russian-American research physicist internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity. He was particularly famous for developing microscopic foundations of the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity (Vitaly Ginzburg was awarded the 2003 Nobel prize in physics for developing, together with Lev Landau, that phenomenological theory).
Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (Russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский [ˈlʲef pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtajɪfskʲɪj]; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics. Together with his PhD supervisor Evgeny Lifshitz and with Vladimir Berestetskii, he was also the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics series.