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    The surname Levingston

    A surname, carried by 1,581 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L152

    Levingston: #17,726 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Levingston #17,726, 1,581 people Levingston: #17,726 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Levingston #17,726, 1,581 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Levingston is more common than 89.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname, a variant of Livingston.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,581 people named Levingston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,488.

    #17,726
    rank among US surnames
    1,581
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #17,466)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,717Brodersen1,583195,038
    #17,720Dopp1,582195,162
    #17,726Fader1,581195,285
    #17,734Dorsch1,580195,409

    Who is named Levingston

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

    57% of people named Levingston identified as Black (not Hispanic), 38% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 57%
    • White (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Famous Levingstons

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Cliff Levingston
      American basketball player-coach, born 1961

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Levingston

    Levingston has the Soundex code L152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L152.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Levingston?
    1,581 people in the United States had the surname Levingston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. It ranked 17,726th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Levingston?
    In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Levingston identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 38% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Levingston?
    Cliff Levingston, American basketball player-coach.
    Where is the surname Levingston most common?
    Wikidata records people named Levingston in the United States.
    Is the surname Levingston getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,488 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,581 in 2010, up 6.2%.