Levant: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Levant – Meaning: rising (the sun's point of rising, the east) – Origin: French (from Latin, 'to rise') – Gender: Boy – Pronunciation: lə-VANT


Levant is a French (from Latin, 'to rise') boy's name meaning “rising (the sun's point of rising, the east)”. It appears in our list of 175+ Coastal Baby Names for Sea-Loving Families.

Meaning & Origin of Levant

Meaning: Rising (the sun's point of rising, the east).

Origin: French (from Latin, 'to rise').

Source: Wiktionary.

How to Pronounce Levant

Phonetic: lə-VANT   IPA: /ləˈvænt/

Popularity of Levant

Levant doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

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