Levon

given name · English · Latin script

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

Levon is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 45th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Armenian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: U.S.: of unknown origin; possibly an unexplained variant of Levi.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 177◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 247
  • VEVenezuela1 in 271

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

≈326K ●

across 16 countries

#280 ●

of 21M surnames

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
502 ●

7.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 177 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

LeonLatin · Spanish●3.5M records
ᲚევონGeorgian · Georgian●1.8K records
ԼեւոնArmenian · Armenian●198 records
레오Hangul · Korean●44 records
เล้วอนThai · Thai●30 records
ΛεωνGreek · Greek●10 records
ЛеонCyrillic · Tajik●6 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leo in US United States, FR France, BR Brazil and 13 more, Leon in MX Mexico, PE Peru, ES Spain and 7 more, Leone in IT Italy and Leao in PT Portugal.

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●

U.S.: of unknown origin; possibly an unexplained variant of Levi.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Levon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#451,276,2801.1M rec.—5.7KLeon236
PE Peru#49622,678602K rec.——Leon131
PH Philippines#18498,093381K rec.—listedLeon154
VE Venezuela#46330,627335K rec.——Leon108
CO Colombia#70140,04382K rec.—3Leon180
CL Chile#93115,60319K rec.—762Leon142
EC Ecuador#1095,574△5.2K rec.1 in 17796KLeon93
GB United Kingdom—90,977156K rec.—3.3KLeo219
US United States#32686,3633.3M rec.1 in 3.9K118KLeo502
AU Australia#80383,43289K rec.—3Leo228
ES Spain#6673,175158K rec.1 in 68473KLeon197
CA Canada#60467,26381K rec.—141Leo178

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

Languages●

  • English69K69%
  • Armenian7.5K7%
  • Spanish5.2K5%
  • 2.7K3%
  • French2.4K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English69,29569%
Armenian7,4557%
Spanish5,2005%
2,6533%
French2,4462%

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◐

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

  • Russian given name3.0K records spelled Levon11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Левон, Лёвон, Levón

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Levon3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Levón, Lévon

  • Finnish given name375 records spelled Levon3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Netherlands

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Levón

  • Bulgarian given name211 records spelled Levon9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Левон

45 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●

Levon is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Leontii.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Finnish, genitive singular of lepo

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

  • In Hungarian, to deduct

    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●

050100150192019401960198020002020140 · 2018

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Levon in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–2025
Yearrecords
19135
19146
191512
19168
191714
191813
191921
192015
192118
192217
192319
192421
192511
192613
192721
192819
192916
193017
193133
193225
193327
193437
193531
193624
193743
193832
193935
194036
194132
194238
194331
194424
194531
194651
194747
194853
194952
195060
195163
195240
195367
195461
195564
195649
195764
195836
195940
196049
196152
196246
196331
196439
196537
196636
196722
196823
196933
197034
197143
197248
197351
197450
197558
197652
197765
197868
197971
198062
198170
198253
198364
198465
198554
198658
198784
1988100
198979
199073
199159
199267
199359
199453
199557
199649
199751
199861
199954
200048
200130
200236
200342
200445
200540
200650
200756
200865
200953
201044
201147
201289
201389
2014105
2015109
2016114
2017114
2018140
2019121
2020107
2021110
2022117
2023101
202492
2025102

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 113 years between 1913–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Levon Shant, b. 1869Levon Mirzoyan, b. 1897Levon Helm, b. 1940Levon Ter-Petrosyan, b. 1945Levon Minassian, b. 1953Levon Julfalakyan, b. 1964Levon Aronian, b. 1982Levon Babujian, b. 1986Levon Hayrapetyan, b. 1989Levon Hawke, b. 2002

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 59 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Levon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.4K#4,078
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020297#4,078
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000273#67,522
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020248#82,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010227#82,908
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—167#5,945
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026166#1,466
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—161#10,716
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—155#1,444
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—148#3,453
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—118#6,435
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025102—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 343 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Levon?
We estimate roughly 326 thousand people bear Levon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Levon have the most bearers?
Levon is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled leon.
Where is Levon most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Levon is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 177 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
How common is Levon compared with other names?
In Mexico, Levon is the 45th most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
Is Levon a male or female name?
Levon 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 Levon mean?
Recorded meaning: U.S.: of unknown origin; possibly an unexplained variant of Levi.
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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, “Levon” — the 45th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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