as a Last Name
- 287
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Leventis
Meaning & Origins
Greek: from Italian levanti ‘Levantine’, ‘people from the East’, i.e. the eastern Mediterranean, in particular armed sailors or pirates during the Middle Ages.In Italian the word took on a negative connotation and came to mean ‘pirate’ and hence ‘undisciplined youth’, but in Greek the term has positive connotations of fearlessness and gallantry. It is also a reduced form of surnames with Levento- as a prefix, e.g. Leventogiannis ‘John the gallant’.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 287
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Leventis per capita
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