Leviton — Family Name, Records and Arms

What can public data say about the Leviton family name? Quite a lot. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “the large or heavy man; dweller at the sign of the leviathan”.

Heraldry and the Leviton name

Sharing the Leviton name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname origin

Related forms include Levitan.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Leviton with 377 bearers, at rank 54,637. It sits among the 100,000 most common last names in the country. For the full story, order the Leviton surname pack.