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    The surname Levey

    A surname, carried by 2,167 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L100

    Levey: #13,933 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Levey #13,933, 2,167 people Levey: #13,933 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Levey #13,933, 2,167 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Levey is more common than 91.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,167 people named Levey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 142,476 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,125.

    #13,933
    rank among US surnames
    2,167
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #13,181)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,926Kelliher2,168142,410
    #13,933Flippo2,167142,476
    #13,938Duplantis2,166142,542

    Who is named Levey

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    91% of people named Levey identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Levey

    Levey has the Soundex code L100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Levey?
    2,167 people in the United States had the surname Levey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 142,476 Americans. It ranked 13,933rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Levey?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Levey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Levey getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,125 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,167 in 2010, up 2.0%.