The LEVY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	35,464	892	0.013	132
United States (1880 census)	8,466	710	0.017	169
Change since 1880	+26998	-182	-0.004	-37
Other Countries
Australia	1,166	1414	0.007	71
United Kingdom	4,441	1413	0.01	97

Top States for LEVY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	6,536	164	0.034	344
Florida	4,796	310	0.030	300
California	4,615	602	0.014	136
New Jersey	2,306	265	0.027	274
Illinois	1,552	668	0.012	125
Top States for LEVY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	6,536	164	0.034	344
Florida	4,796	310	0.030	300
New Jersey	2,306	265	0.027	274
Washington DC	141	351	0.025	246
Maryland	1,069	433	0.020	202

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LEVY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LEVY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LEVY in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LEVY by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LEVY

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEVY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LEVY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	628	1.77
Asian/Pacific	220	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	60	0.17
White (Caucasian)	29,293	82.6
Black/African American	3,983	11.23
White (Hispanic)	1,277	3.6

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LEVY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LEVY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEVY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.