as a Last Name
- 1,805
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Lever
Meaning & Origins
English (of Norman origin): 1. nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from Old French levre ‘hare’ (Latin lepus, genitive leporis). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of hares. 2. topographic name for someone who lived in a place thickly grown with rushes, from Old English lǣfer ‘rush’, ‘reed’, ‘iris’. Compare Laver 3.Great and Little Lever in Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire) are named with this word (in a collective sense) and in some cases the surname may also be derived from these places. 3. possibly from an unrecorded Middle English survival of an Old English personal name, Lēofhere, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + here ‘army’.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,805
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Lever per capita
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