Levin (first name)
Levin is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name Levin has different origins. On the one hand it is the Low German or Dutch variant of the Old High German name Liebwin or Liafwin or Lebuin , which became known through the Anglo-Saxon missionary Lebuin ; these pre-forms of the name mean “people's friend” or “dear friend”. Levin can also be traced back to the Hebrew form Levi , which means "to be connected". Furthermore, the name is used in Yiddish as a pet form of Lion and in Turkish as a first name of Arabic origin, where it means "color" or "character".
variants
Variants are for example: Lewin, Liebwin, Liobwini, Liafwin, Lebuin, Livinius, Lieven and Liévin ( French )
name day
The name day on November 12th is due to the Catholic Saint Lebuin .
Name bearer
- Levin August von Bennigsen (1745–1826), German general
- Levin von Donop (1567–1641), German politician
- Levin Goldschmidt (1829–1897), German lawyer
- Levin Ludwig I. Hahn (1579–1635), German court official and soldier
- Levin Henning (* 1999), German child actor
- Levin Öztunali (* 1996), German soccer player
- Levin Schücking (1814–1883), German writer
- Levin von der Schulenburg (1581–1640), district administrator
- Levin Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1738–1801), Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and heir, feudal lord and court lord on castle divisions and church divorces as well as small loving care
- Levin Friedrich V von der Schulenburg (1801–1842), German manor owner and member of parliament
- Levin Rudolph von der Schulenburg (1727–1788), secret state and war minister
- Levin Storch († ≈1546), German carver
Others
Levin's emphasis is on the first syllable of German origin; on the second syllable after another origin.
According to the statistics on the most popular first names in Germany published annually by Knud Bielefeld , Levin has been one of the 100 most common male first names of the respective birth cohort since the mid-2000s.
Levin is also a family name .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Levin in the dictionary of names of the Turkish language (Turkish)
- ↑ Duden, The German Orthography, 21st edition (1996)
- ↑ first name Levin on www.beliebte-vornamen.de