Lew
The boy's name Lew has been in the national records since 1880, with 2,208 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 870 Lews are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lew boys named Lew
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,208
- Estimated living today
- 870
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 1,034th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 15 / 2,193
How old the living Lews are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,208 babies given the name since 1880, about 870 are alive — 40 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lews
- Lew Wallace (1827–1905)American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur'
- Lew Ayres (1908–1996)American actor
- Lew Hoad (1934–1994)Australian tennis player
- Lew Rockwell (born 1944)American libertarian author, editor, and political consultant
- Lew Sapieha (1557–1633)Polish–Lithuanian noble
- Lew Temple (born 1967)American actor
- Lew Cody (1884–1934)American actor
- Lew Soloff (1944–2015)American musician
People named Lew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lew is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lew is most concentrated in New York (4.0×), California (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Lew peaked:
Lew elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Lew | 387 birth registrations | 175th |
| England and Wales boys | Lew | 3 | 4,789th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lew: rank by region
In 2025, Lew was given 2 times or more in 7 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Lew | 157 | 6 |
| Małopolskie | Lew | 182 | 4 |
| Mazowieckie | Lew | 164 | 10 |
| Pomorskie | Lew | 212 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Lew | 254 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lew | 215 | 3 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Lew | 168 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lew by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 8 | 439th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Lew against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.