Levente

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Левенте in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.

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●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Levente is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name1.5K records spelled Levente5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Romania, France, United States

  Languages: Spanish, French, Romanian

  Also written Léventé

• Portuguese given name234 records spelled Levente2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

  Also written Lévente

• Croatian given name108 records spelled Levente9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

  Also written Левенте

31 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●

Levente is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Hungarian, a male given name, meaning “existing”

  as a word·kaikki.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●

HU KSH — births by given name — 25 years between 2000–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Leventeb. 1010Member of the House of Árpád, son of Vazul (died 1047)
• Levente Lengyelb. 1933HUHungarian chess player (1933–2014)
• Levente Királyb. 1937HUHungarian actor (1937–2024)
• Levente Molnárb. 1976ROHungarian actor and casting director from Romania (1976–)
• Levente Füredyb. 1978HUOlympic wrestler (1978–)
• Levente Szuperb. 1980HUHungarian ice hockey player (born 1980)
• Levente Vajdab. 1981RORomanian chess player (1981–)
• Levente Bőszb. 1994HURomanian association footballer player (1994–)
• Levente Szabób. 1999HUHungarian footballer (1999–)
• Levente Bőszeb. 2009HUHungarian footballer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 155 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Levente?

We estimate roughly 43 thousand people bear Levente (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Levente have the most bearers?

We estimate about 42 thousand people bear Levente in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled levente.

Where is Levente most common?

Levente is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 231 people carrying it.

How common is Levente compared with other names?

In Hungary, Levente is the 58th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.

Is Levente a male or female name?

Levente 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 Levente mean?

Recorded meaning: épée (kind of sword)