Levin

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• 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.