The Levey Family Name

Arms linked to Levy and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Levey means

Many Levey families will find their roots under Levy, the form most records use. The name is generally explained as “Attached”.

Levey adds “e” to Levy, a small change that appeared as the name was written down. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Levie and Levi. About 2,167 people in the United States were recorded as Levey in 2010, placing it 13,933 on the national list.

Get the complete Levey report, with a museum-style coat of arms.