Lev

The name Lev may be of different origins.
It is a male first name of Slavic origin, which translates as "lion"; cf. German name Löw.
It is also a common Yiddish Israeli surname and uncommon female first name which translates as "heart" (לב, Loeb, Löb) in Hebrew.
The name also appears in the forms Liev, Lyev, Leo and Leon.
People with this name include:
Leo I of Galicia (Lev Danylovych in Ukrainian) (c. 1228-c. 1301), Knyaz (prince) of Belz, Peremyshl, Halych, Grand Prince of Kiev and King of Galicia-Volhynia
Lev Alburt (born 1945), chess Grandmaster and chess writer
Lev Artsimovich (1909-1973), Soviet physicist
Lev Berg (1876-1950), Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
Lev Brovarskyi (1948-2009), Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach
Lev Chernyi (died 1921), Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet
Lev Dyomin (1926-1988), Soviet cosmonaut and Air Force colonel
Lev Grossman (born 1969), American novelist and critic
Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist
Lev Hakak (born 1944), Israeli-American academic, novelist and poet
Lev Ivanov (1834-1901), Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet
Lev Ivanov (football manager) (born 1967), Russian football manager
Lev Korchebokov (1907-1971), Soviet football player and manager
Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), Soviet filmmaker and film theorist
Lev Khrshchonovich (1838-1907), chief architect of Kazan
Lev Landau (1908–1968), Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate
Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born 1956), Israeli businessman and philanthropist
Lev Binzumovich Leviev (born 1984), Russian-Israeli Internet entrepreneur and investor
Lev Loseff (1937-2009), Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator
Lev Mei (1822-1862), Russian dramatist and poet
Lev Naryshkin (1785-1846), Russian general in the Napoleonic Wars
Lev Perovski (1792-1856), Russian count, mineralogist and Minister of Internal Affairs under Nicholas I
Lev Pitaevskii (born 1933), Soviet theoretical physicist
Lev Polugaevsky (1934-1995), Soviet grandmaster and author
Lev Pontryagin (1908-1988), Soviet mathematician
Lev Russov (1926-1987), Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor
Lev Sedov (1906–1938), son of the Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky
Lev Shatilo (born 1962), retired javelin thrower from the Soviet Union
Lev L. Spiro, American television and film director
Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), often translated as Leo Tolstoy, Russian author
Lev Trotsky (Liev Davidovitch Bronstein) (1879-1940), often translated as Leon Trotsky, Russian economist and revolutionary
Lev Vladimirovich Urusov (1877-1933), Russian prince, diplomat and tennis player
Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934), Soviet psychologist
Lev Weinstein (1916–2004), Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting
Lev Yashin (1929–1990), Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper
Lev Yilmaz (born 1973), American independent filmmaker, artist and publisher

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Monetary unit of Bulgaria, introduced 1881, literally "lion" (compare leu).

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Form of Leo in Latin: lion. Means: heart in Hebrew.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Lev Vygotsky	1896	Soviet Belarusian psychologist
2	Lev Yashin	1929	Russian footballer
3	Lev Grossman	1969	American novelist, journalist
4	Lev Kamenev	1883	Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
5	Lev Landau	1908	Soviet physicist
6	Lev Gorn	1971	American actor
7	Lev Avnerovich Leviev	1956	Soviet-born Israeli businessman, philanthropist and investor
8	Lev Shestov	1866	Russian theologian
9	Lev Sedov	1906	Russian Communist and political activist
10	Lev L. Spiro		American film director
11	Lev Kuleshov	1899	Soviet filmmaker and film theorist (1899–1970)
12	Lev Manovich	1960	American academic
13	Martin Lev	1959	English child actor
14	Lev Pontryagin	1908	Soviet mathematician
15	Lev Gumilyov	1912	Soviet academic
16	Lev L. Dassin	1965	American lawyer
17	Lev Lvovich Tolstoy	1869	Russian writer
18	Lev Kopelev	1912	Soviet writer
19	Lev Nussimbaum	1905	Jewish writer
20	Lev Mekhlis	1889	Soviet politician
21	Lev Leshchenko	1942	Russian singer
22	Lev Polugaevsky	1934	Chess player
23	Lev Chernyi	1890	Russian anarchist theorist, activist and poet executed by the Bolsheviks
24	Lev Shestakov	1915	Soviet flying ace
25	Lev Durov	1931	Soviet actor
26	Lev Artsimovich	1909	Soviet physicist
27	Lev Rebet	1912	Ukrainian activist
28	Lev Knipper	1898	Russian composer
29	Lev Oborin	1907	Soviet musician
30	Lev Alburt	1945	Chess Grandmaster
31	Lev Leviev	1984	Internet entrepreneur and investor
32	Lev Yilmaz	1969	American comics artist
33	Lev Berg	1876	Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
34	Lev Russov	1926	Russian artist
35	Lev Rokhlin	1947	Soviet general
36	Lev Rudnev	1885	Soviet architect
37	Benjamin Lev	1935	Lebanese-Italian actor
38	Lev Zhurbin	1978	Russian/American musician
39	Lev Psakhis	1958	Chess player
40	Lev Gor'kov	1929	Russian-American physicist
41	Elena Lev	1981	Gymnast
42	Lev Lagorio	1827	Russian artist
43	Lev Zbarsky	1931	Soviet and American painter
44	Lev Tikhomirov	1852	Russian philosopher
45	Lev Atamanov	1905	Soviet animator
46	Lev Karakhan	1889	Soviet diplomat
47	Lev Schnirelmann	1905	Russian mathematician
48	Lev Vaidman	1955	Israeli physicist
49	Lev Dovator	1903	Soviet general
50	Lev Pitaevskii	1933	Soviet physicist
51	Lev Dobriansky	1918	American diplomat
52	Lev Okhotin	1911	Russian fascist
53	Lev Naumov	1925	Russian classical pianist, composer and educator
54	Lev Navrozov	1928	Soviet historian
55	Lev Vlasenko	1928	Soviet musician
56	Lev Okun	1929	Russian physicist
57	Lev Dyomin	1926	Soviet cosmonaut
58	Zasetsky	1920	Russian patient
59	Lev Dodin	1944	Russian theatre director
60	Lev Perovski	1792	Mineralogist
61	Lev Kerbel	1917	Russian sculptor
62	Lev Timofeev	1936	Writer and journalist
63	Lev Kulidzhanov	1924	Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter
64	Lev Razgon	1908	Soviet writer
65	Lev Ponomaryov	1941	Russian politician
66	Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov	1926	Russian computer scientist
67	Lev Shcherba	1880	Russian linguist
68	Lev Naryshkin	1785	Russian commander
69	Lev Gudkov	1946	Russian sociologist
70	Lev Gutman	1945	Chess player
71	Lev Mei	1822	Russian writer
72	Lev Kassil	1905	Soviet writer
73	Lev Khasis	1966	Russian businessman
74	Lev Prygunov	1939	Russian actor
75	Lev Ponikvar	1917
76	Lev Vladimirsky	1903	Soviet Admiral
77	Lev Yalcin	1985	Turkish professional footballer
78	Lev Shubnikov	1901	Russian physicist
79	Lev Susany	1988	Australian powerlifter
80	Lev Gillet	1893	Monk, ecumenist
81	Lev Mantula	1928	Serbian footballer
82	Lev Kekushev	1862	Russian architect
83	Lev Aronin	1920	Chess player
84	Lev Zadov	1893	Officer of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
85	Lev Aronson	1912	Latvian musician
86	Lev Sternberg	1861	Ukrainian ethnographer
87	Lev R. Ginzburg	1945	Theoretical ecologist
88	Lev Vasilevsky	1904	Soviet spy
89	Ray Lev	1912	American musician
90	Lev M. Bregman	1941	Russian mathematician
91	Arlene Istar Lev		American family therapist
92	Lev Loseff	1937	Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator
93	Lev Kreft	1951	Philosopher
94	Lev Galler	1883	Soviet military leader
95	Lev Lvovich Kamenev	1833	Russian artist
96	Lev Lobodin	1969	Athletics competitor
97	Lev Kirshner	1969	American soccer player-coach
98	Lev Borisov	1933	Actor
99	Lev Orekhov	1913	Russian artist
100	Lev Lebedinsky	1904	Russian musicologist
101	Lev Zeleny	1948	Physicist
102	Lev Lipatov	1940	Russian physicist
103	Lev Shankovsky	1903
104	Lev Steinberg	1870	Music conductor
105	Lev Ivanov	1967	Russian footballer
106	Lev Lunts	1901	Russian writer
107	Lev Arnshtam	1905	Film director, screenwriter
108	Nadya Lev
109	Lev Shcheglov	1946	Physician
110	Daniel Lev	1933	American political scientist
111	Lev Schlosberg	1963	Soviet journalist
112	Lev Skrbenský z Hříště	1863	Czech cardinal
113	Lev Davidovich Belkind	1896	Soviet engineer
114	Lev Aptekar	1936	Soviet-New Zealand chess player
115	Lev David	1980	South African writer
116	Ze’ev Lev	1922	Israeli physicist
117	Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev	1873	Russian chemist
118	Lew Iwanowitsch Oschanin	1912	Russian poet, playwright and writer
119	Lev Bogomolets	1911	Russian artist
120	Lev V. Oshanin	1884
121	Lev Elterman	1969
122	Lev Conus	1871	Russian musician
123	Lev Raphael	1954	American author
124	Lev of Optina	1768	Russian saint and monk
125	Lev Iakovlevich Karpov	1879	Russian revolutionary
126	Lev Pavlovich Rapoport	1920	Soviet physicist
127	Lev Toitman	1925	Russian jewish leader
128	Lev Uspensky	1900	Russian writer
129	Lev Abalkin	2138
130	Lev Tsenkovsky	1822	Polish-Russian biologist
131	Lev Milčinski	1916	Slovene psychiatrist (1916-2001)
132	Lev Barenboim	1906	Russian musician
133	Lev Chegorovsky	1914	Russian artist
134	Lev Korchebokov	1907	Soviet association football player (1907-1971)
135	Lev Milchin	1920	Soviet film director
136	Lev Lyulyev	1908	Soviet engineer
137	Lev Kuznetsov	1965	Russian politician
138	Lev Nusberg	1937	Russian painter
139	Lev Platonov	1940	Russian footballer
140	Lev Natochenny	1950	Russian musician
141	Lev Urusov	1877	Russian diplomat and athlete, member of International Olympic Committee
142	Lev Ozerov	1914	Ukrainian poet
143	Shimon Lev	1962	Israeli photographer
144	Lev Bulat	1947	Russian physicist
145	Lev Anninsky	1934	Russian literary historian and critic
146	Lev Vinocour	1970	Russian pianist
147	Lev Mosin	1992	Russian sprinter
148	Lev Mukhin	1936	Boxer
149	Lev Kornilov	1984	Russian footballer
150	Lev Razumovsky	1926	Russian sculptor and painter
151	Lev Sychrava	1887	Czech Czechoslovak politician, politician, lawyer and writer
152	Lev Kasso	1865	Russian politician
153	Lev Winter	1876	Czech Czechoslovak politician and attorney
154	Lev Kiszka	1668	Metropolitan of Kiev
155	Lev Vainshtein	1916	Sport shooter
156	Lev Zhiltsov	1928	Soviet submarine commander
157	Lev Rukhin	1912	Soviet geologist
158	Lev Gorlitsky	1906	Soviet weapon designer
159	Lev Shekhtman	1951	American actor
160	Lev Matveyev	1971	Russian footballer
161	Lev Voronin	1971	Handball player
162	Lev Pulver	1883	Russian musician
163	Jakub Lev	1990	Czech ice hockey player
164	Lev Skvirsky	1903	Soviet general
165	Josef Lev	1832	Czech music educator, composer and opera singer
166	Lev Burchalkin	1939	Russian footballer Russian footballer and manager
167	Lev Brovarskyi	1948	Footballer
168	Lev Pisarzhevsky	1874	Russian chemist
169	Lev Kobylinsky	1879	Russian poet and translator
170	Lev Lemke	1931	Russian actor
171	Lev Šimák	1896	Czech natural painter and painter
172	Lev Detela	1939	Austrian writer
173	Lev Zalenskyj	1648	Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
174	Lev Kulchitsky	1813	Russian admiral
175	Lev Fink	1910	Soviet physicist
176	Lev Mikhailovich Yashvil	1772	Russian general
177	Michael Lev	1917	Russian writer
178	Lev Mayorov	1969	Footballer
179	Lev Nikitin	1926	Russian canoeist
180	Lew Wladimirowitsch Altschuler	1913	Russian physicist
181	Lev Mikhailov	1936	Russian musician
182	Lev Lyubimov	1902
183	Lev Vekker	1918	Russian-American psychologist
184	Lev Konov	1952	Russian composer
185	Lev Fridman	1969	Russian racing driver
186	Lev Gurilyov	1770	Pianist and composer
187	Lev Fyodorovich Kuznetsov	1930	Fencer
188	Lev Favorsky	1893	Russian footballer
189	Lev Gutenmaher	1908	Russian mathematician
190	Lev Balandin	1934	Russian swimmer
191	Lev Ilyin	1880	Russian architect
192	Lev Alekseyev	1926	Olympic sailor
193	Lev Arens	1890	Soviet poet (1890-1967)
194	Lev Kublanov	1946	American artist
195	Lev Berezner	1970	Russian footballer
196	Lev Schukin	1923	Soviet Korean War flying ace
197	Leo Lerch	1856	Czech painter
198	Lev Igorev	1821
199	Lev Shatilo	1962	Russian javelin thrower
200	Lev Sergeyevich Pushkin	1805	Little brother of Alexander Pushkin