The levin Surname

levin Name Meaning and History

Jewish (mainly from Lithuania and Belarus): Slavicized form of Levy.
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: from the personal name Levin, which was also used by German Christians as a derivative of Liebwin. As a Jewish name it sometimes represents a pet form of western Yiddish ‘lion’ (see Loewe 2).
Russian: patronymic of Lëva, a pet form of the personal name Lev + the Russian possessive suffix -in.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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levin Family Facts

Distribution of levin Families in the US in 1920

Number of levin families

268-534

90-267

1-89

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Threads: 99 - Messages: 197

Thread	Author	Replies
Annie Levin	LQuinn67	0
Levin - Brooklyn 1888	Sara Tanner	7
Levin -- Chicago, Michigan, Sweden, Poland	cprocter184	0
Death of Mr. Albert Eber Levin in CHina	davwayell	0
stanley levin	stuart_lesorgen	1
Levin - hamlet of Echolette	Melodee Fish	5
Dennis Corkrey	annemarietaylor99	0
Jennie Levin, b. abt. 1892	BasketLady420	1
Moses(Morris)Levin	DJLaVine	1
LEVIN (Lithuania, Minnesota)	nedsteiner	0

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