Levit: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Clerks wrote Leavitt in many ways, and Levit is one that stuck. Its meaning, shared with Leavitt, is “Several origins: Livet, wolf cub, or a personal name”. Before spelling was fixed, Leavitt was also written Levit. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Levett.

Levit ranked 30,442 in the 2010 US Census, with 767 people answering to the name. Levit sounds close to Levitt, so it can help to search both.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Levit, so the heraldry linked to Leavitt is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Levit report, with a museum-style coat of arms.