Levin (given name)

Levin is a masculine given name.^[1] It is a modern German version of the Old English name Leofwine or the Old German Leobwin or Liebwin, meaning "dear friend." Dutch variants include Lieven and Lievin.^[2] A rare modern English variant is Lewin. It can also be a variant of Levi, and is a surname with different origins.

Notable people with the name include:

• Levin C. Bailey (c. 1892–1952), judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals
• Levin August von Bennigsen (1745–1826), German general in the service of the Russian Empire
• Levin Bates (fl. c. 1830s), proprietor of the Levin Bates House, Kentucky
• Levin Bufkin (c. 1533–1617), English landowner
• Levin Gale (1784–1834), American politician
• Levin Goldschmidt (1829–1897), German jurist, judge and academic
• Levin H. Campbell (born 1927), United States Circuit Judge
• Levin H. Campbell Jr. (1886–1976), U.S. Army lieutenant general
• Levin Corbin Handy (c. 1855–1932), American photographer
• Levin Irving Handy (1861–1922), American educator, lawyer and politician
• Levin Thomas Handy Irving (1828–1892), justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
• Levin Jones (1847–1914), American professional baseball player
• Levin Kipnis (1894–1990), Israeli children's author and poet
• Levin Major Lewis (1832–1886), Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War
• Levin R. Marshall (1800–1870), American banker and planter in the Antebellum South
• Levin Moreno (born 1989), Colombian para-athlete
• Levin Muller (born 1998), South African cricketer
• Levin Öztunalı (born 1996), German professional footballer
• Levin M. Powell (1798–1885), U.S. Navy rear admiral
• Levin Rauch (1819–1890), Austrian-Hungarian politician
• Levin Schücking (1814–1883), German novelist
• Levin Ludwig Schücking (1878–1964), German scholar of the English language and English literature
• Levin Winder (1757–1819), Revolutionary Army officer in the American Revolutionary War