Lewìs

surname · Latin script

Lewìs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 31as Luis(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 57as Luis
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 61as Luis

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lewìs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,335,098 named Luiz, 2022

#35 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
632 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 31 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador, as Luis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LuisLatin(measured from records)
לואיסHebrew(measured from records)
ลอยThai(measured from records)
ΛουηςGreek(measured from records)
라이스Hangul(measured from records)
ლუისGeorgian(measured from records)
ԼուիArmenian(measured from records)
ЛуивиCyrillic(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Luis in PE Peru, BR Brazil, CO Colombia and 2 more, Louis in US United States and Lüïs in GT Guatemala.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Lewìs: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lewìs
  1. Middle EnglishLewis(measured from records)
  2. Old FrenchLouis(measured from records)
  3. Frankish*Hlūdawīg(measured from records)

From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg.

Sources 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lewìs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lewìs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#151,335,098as Luiz1 in 1591.3MLuis267
CO Colombia#6≈660,000 est.≈1 in 75594Luis246
PE Peru#3≈560,000 est.≈1 in 57557KLuis190
EC Ecuador#2539,474as Luis1 in 31539KLuis157
US United States#101489,968as Luis1 in 679532KLouis632
GT Guatemala—≈210,000 est.≈1 in 83494KLüïs152
CR Costa Rica#183,998as Luis1 in 6184KLuis173

1,335,098 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling luiz. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; RENAP — annual births; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lewìs under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lewìs mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
In which country does Lewìs have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Luiz, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lewìs most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Lewìs itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 31 people named Luis.
How common is the name Lewìs?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,335,098 people named Luiz in 2022, about 1 in 159 residents.
How common is Lewìs compared with other names?
In Brazil, Lewìs is the 15th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lewìs” — the 15th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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