Meaning and Origin of: Levin

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : United

Boy name variations

Levi
Lev
Levey
Levon
Levy

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.