Levins
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Levins is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Leving, Old English Leafing, based on leaf ‘dear’. Compare Loving.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 117K◐
- USUnited States1 in 140K
- IEIreland1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
patronymic from the Middle English personal name Leving, Old English Leafing, based on leaf ‘dear’. Compare Loving.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 18,913 | 79% |
| GB United Kingdom | 1,645 | 7% |
| CA Canada | 635 | 3% |
| IE Ireland | 431 | 2% |
| AU Australia | 424 | 2% |
≈22,048 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English22K93%
- Spanish4322%
- Welsh3932%
- Italian1171%
- Arabic871%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 22,385 | 93% |
| Spanish | 432 | 2% |
| Welsh | 393 | 2% |
| Italian | 117 | 1% |
| Arabic | 87 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Richard Levinsb. 1930USMathematical ecologist, university professor at Harvard School of Public Health, and political activist, who is best known for his work on evolution in changing environments and on metapopulations.
- Aurora Levins Moralesb. 1954USPuerto Rican Jewish writer
- Joe Levinsb. 1968USAmerican alpine skier
- Scott Levinsb. 1970USAmerican ice hockey player
- A+b. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Cameron Levinsb. 1989CAOlympic runner
- Chloe Levinsb. 1998USAmerican biathlete und cross-country skier
- Connor Christopher Levinsb. 1999CAactor
- Toby LevinsAUAustralian actor
- Paul LevinsAUbusinessperson from Australia
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●
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,250 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,916 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #105,439 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #353,865 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2011 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2010 | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1 | #90,943 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1992 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-09-06 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Levins?
- Our records include 22,048 bearers of Levins across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Levins have the most bearers?
- Levins is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What does the name Levins mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Leving, Old English Leafing, based on leaf ‘dear’. Compare Loving.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Levins”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.