Levin (given name)
Levin is a masculine given name. It is a modern German version of the [Old English language|English language|Old English] name Leofwine or the Old German Leobwin or Liebwin, meaning "dear friend." Dutch variants include Lieven and Lievin. 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, judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals
- Levin August von Bennigsen, German general in the service of the Russian Empire
- Levin Bates, proprietor of the Levin Bates House, Kentucky
- Levin Bufkin, English landowner
- Levin Gale, American politician
- Levin Goldschmidt, German jurist, judge and academic
- Levin H. Campbell, United States Circuit Judge
- Levin H. Campbell Jr., U.S. Army lieutenant general
- Levin Corbin Handy, American photographer
- Levin Irving Handy, American educator, lawyer and politician
- Levin Thomas Handy Irving, justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
- Levin Jones, American professional baseball player
- Levin Kipnis, Israeli children's author and poet
- Levin Major Lewis, Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War
- Levin R. Marshall, American banker and planter in the Antebellum South
- Levin Moreno, Colombian para-athlete
- Levin Muller, South African cricketer
- Levin Öztunalı, German professional footballer
- Levin M. Powell, U.S. Navy rear admiral
- Levin Rauch, Austrian-Hungarian politician
- Levin Schücking, German novelist
- Levin Ludwig Schücking, German scholar of the English language and English literature
- Levin Winder, Revolutionary Army officer in the American Revolutionary War