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The levin Surname

levin Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (mainly from Lithuania and Belarus): Slavicized form of Levy.
  2. 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).
  3. 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
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 99 - Messages: 197
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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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