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Lewis

Pronounced /ˈluːɪs/

Rank in 2024
#434
Born in 2024
728
Peak year
1921 · #71
Origin
Frankish

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 728 boys were named Lewis, about 1 in every 2,356.
  • It peaked in 1921 with 2,712 babies, ranked #71.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 155,019 boys have been named Lewis since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Lewis per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.5
    Greatest
  2. 1.8
    Silent
  3. 0.9
    Boomers
  4. 0.5
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 42,121 babies, 2.52 per 1,000. Silent: 36,698 babies, 1.78 per 1,000. Boomers: 33,495 babies, 0.89 per 1,000. Gen X: 13,301 babies, 0.49 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,591 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,634 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,670 babies, 0.31 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg. Doublet of Louis. ==== Proper noun ==== Lewis (countable and uncountable, plural Lewises) A male given name from Frankish. An English surname originating as a patronymic. The title given to a partially apprenticed Freemason who is normally the Master or Son of a practicing Freemason; one practising or learning the degrees of Freemasonry after introduction to the degrees and before full induction or before becoming a Worshipful Brother.

  • A male given name from Frankish.
Origin
Frankish
Say it
/ˈluːɪs/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Lewis, CC BY-SA 4.0.