# Levay (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/levay/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Hungarian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Hungarian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 560 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,281 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 551,331 people |
| Change since 2000 | -7.0% (602 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian Lévay, a Jewish surname originating from the personal name Levi.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Levay in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Levay in the United Kingdom.

## People named Levay

- Simon LeVay, British-American neuroscientist (born 1943)

## Similar surnames

Levy, Leyva, Leiva, Levi, Leaf, Levey, Leavy, Lev, Leap, Əliyeva, Love, Libby.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.