About the Levitan Surname

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Family name meaning

Levitan is a branch of the Leviton name tree. Read literally, Levitan points to “The large or heavy man; dweller at the sign of the leviathan”.

Before spelling was fixed, Leviton was also written Levitan. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. 1,111 Americans were listed as Levitan in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames.

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