Levan

given name · Georgian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Levan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Georgia it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Georgian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, from French le vent ‘the wind’.

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 146◐
  • PLPoland1 in 29K
  • RURussia1 in 29K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈30K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
272 ●

202K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 146 ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

LevanLatin · Georgian●232K records
ᲚევანGeorgian · Georgian●79K records
ЛеванCyrillic · Russian●35K records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Леван in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, TR Türkiye and 6 more and Levani in BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, from French le vent ‘the wind’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Levan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#63435,15416K rec.—#796Леван126
GE Georgia#727,328117K rec.1 in 14627KLevan107
UA Ukraine#8403,4333.5K rec.——Леван17
PL Poland#7681,325△59 rec.1 in 29K1.3KLevan23
VN Vietnam—1,1898.7K rec.——Levan44
FR France—1,0592.2K rec.—54Levan141
TR Türkiye—970450 rec.——Леван9
ZW Zimbabwe#959191 rec.——Леван1
GB United Kingdom—7533.2K rec.—listedLevan47
US United States—64345K rec.1 in 517K4.6KLevan272
DE Germany—602833 rec.—1Levan54
ES Spain—246163 rec.1 in 203K246Levan18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Georgian232K90%
  • English11K4%
  • Polish5.2K2%
  • Vietnamese1.7K1%
  • Spanish1.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Georgian231,57390%
English11,1294%
Polish5,2112%
Vietnamese1,6561%
Spanish1,4731%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Levan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2.8K records spelled Levan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Russia

    Also written Leván

  • a separate given name1.2K records spelled Levan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Russia

    Also written Levăn, Lêvạn, Lêvan, Lêvăn

  • Finnish given name279 records spelled Levan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Leván

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name209 records spelled Levan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Leván

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Levan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, to be ready, done (one has gotten over it successfully)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular passive past participle of levati

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A homopolysaccharide composed of D-fructofuranosyl.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of levar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, apocopic form of levano

    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.

Over time●

05101519201940196019802000202014 · 1978

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Levan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1916–2025
Yearrecords
19165
19185
19207
19226
19237
192410
19255
19268
19279
19286
19307
19317
19326
193310
19349
193610
19376
19395
19408
19415
19427
194310
19456
19465
19479
19488
19498
19509
195112
195212
195310
19549
19557
195610
195710
19597
19619
19626
19636
196411
19658
19665
19676
196812
19697
19708
19719
197210
19736
19757
197713
197814
19798
19809
19865
19879
198810
19896
19907
19925
19936
19945
19967
19987
20009
20015
20048
20065
20075
20085
20115
20128
20146
20156
201610
20188
20207
20249
20258

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 79 years between 1916–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Levan of Kakheti, b. 1504Levan of Kartli, b. 1660Levan Gabriadze, b. 1969Cedric Richmond, b. 1973Levan Koguashvili, b. 1973Levan Kobiashvili, b. 1977Kokkai Futoshi, b. 1981Levan Saginashvili, b. 1988Levan Kenia, b. 1990Levan Shengelia, b. 1995

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 57 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Levan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.6K#7,308
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.4K#7,001
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204K#7,907
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20261.3K#425
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.2K#430
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020643#15,926
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—246#7,708
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—211#4,031
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202072#15,926
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199154—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—52#26,991
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—46#8,696

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 176 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Levan?
We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Levan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Levan have the most bearers?
Levan is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled леван.
Where is Levan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Levan is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 146 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Levan compared with other names?
In Russia, Levan is the 634th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Levan a male or female name?
Levan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Levan mean?
Recorded meaning: nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, from French le vent ‘the wind’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Levan” — the 634th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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