Lévai

History

Although the last name Lévai, in the Hungarian language, means "from the town of Levice", this name is considered – almost completely exclusively – a Jewish surname, which was created by the modificiation of the original Jewish name of Levi (surname) or Levy (surname). All of the name's bearers today are of Jewish Descent. During World War II, the time of The Holocaust, the name Lévai/Lévay was a name very much preferred by the Hungarian Jewish population to change their names to – in order to evade persecution.