The name Lever has a historic Coat of Arms.

The origin of the name Lever is English and the Coat of Arms contains Silver with two black bends. The Crest is A rooster standing on a trumpet.

A small excerpt from this Lever family history:
Spelling variations include: Lever, Laver, Lavers, Leaver, Leyver, and others.
First found in in Lancashire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Ashton Lever settled in Maryland in 1775, along with James; Adam, James, John, Lawrence, and William Lever all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860; Michael Laver arrived in Philadelphia in 1751. and others.

It is interesting to note that the Lever of Liverpool are owners of a big detergent factories/business (to wash clothes), under the name of Lever PERSIL, which is a national monopolio.

The surname Lever is a very uncommon surname, not only in Mexico but also in other countries, including USA, and even England, from which it origininates. It is estimated that in Lancashire, England (My great-grandparents were from Liverpool, close to Lancashire). There used to be only a very few people in the white pages in Liverpool in 1982 under this surname, and perhaps a total of 5,000 persons in the whole country. There is a family tree six centuries old.