The Levan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,564 people carried this name — #7,308 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 64,500 people counted. That is up 3% from 4,414 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 143 people named Levan.
16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
76 people named Levan are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Levan in American newspapers,
1920.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 28,206 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Levan,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bob Merrill 1921–1998 · screenwriter -
Emil Levan 1854–1925 · concertmaster
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Anders Levan 1880–1962 · electrical engineer
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Albert Levan 1905–1998 · botanist
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Mats Levan 1919–2016 · engineer
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Jesse Levan 1926–1998 · baseball player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Levan.
- Leu 2,459 · U.S. census
- Leuci 229 · U.S. census
- Leuck 700 · U.S. census
- Leuenberger 726 · U.S. census
- Leurquin 184 · U.S. census
- Leva 956 · U.S. census
- Levant 361 · U.S. census
- Levas 134 · U.S. census
- Levasseur 4,404 · U.S. census
- Leve 300 · U.S. census
- Levee 439 · U.S. census
- Leveille 2,017 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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