Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Lev
/LEV/
Meaning
“Heart”
Hebrew name meaning heart, or alternatively the Russian form of Leo meaning lion; carried by revolutionary Leon Trotsky (born Lev) and writer Lev Tolstoy.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
playful
How it ages.
Short, strong, and literary; increasingly popular in the West as a compact Hebrew-Russian option.
The cultural moment.
Rising in Israel, Germany, and the US since around 2015; fashionable among internationally minded parents.