How Many People Are Named Lewis?
people named Lewis are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 5,432 people in the US has this name
Based on 156,636 babies named Lewis in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,731 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Medieval English form of LOUIS. A famous bearer was Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. This was also the surname of C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), the author of the 'Chronicles of Narnia'.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Lewis in English. Counting Lewis and these spellings together, about 231,661 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Lewis, 0.6% were girls and 99.4% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lewis alive today is about 53 years old, and 49% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 35 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lewis first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 2,731 babies. In 2025, 736 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Lewis never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #30, in 1880, and it was in the top 100 for 56 years, 1880 to 1935. In 2025 it ranked #433.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #433 |
| Best rank | #30 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | 56 (1880 to 1935) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #77 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lewis alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lewis were born in New York than in any other state: about 4,207 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lewis was given 2.3 times as often in Virginia, 2.1 times in South Carolina and 1.8 times in Georgia.
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