Lewís

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lewís is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Lewis, Lowis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French Louis, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg.

  • ECEcuador1 in 31as Luis(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 54as Luis
  • PEPeru≈1 in 60as 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 Lewís itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,800,000 named Luis, est.

#35 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
632 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: 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 MX Mexico, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 3 more 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 Lewís: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Lewís
  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.

Cited for this meaning 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)

Lewís 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 Lewís is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#4≈1,800,000 est.≈1 in 7316KLuis315
BR Brazil#151,335,098as Luiz1 in 1591.3MLuis267
CO Colombia#6≈970,000 est.≈1 in 54594Luis246
PE Peru#3≈570,000 est.≈1 in 60557KLuis190
EC Ecuador#2539,474as Luis1 in 31539KLuis157
GT Guatemala—≈300,000 est.≈1 in 61494KLüïs152
CR Costa Rica#183,998as Luis1 in 6184KLuis173

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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 Lewís 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 Lewís 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.
Is Lewís a male or female name?
Lewís is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Lewís have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Luis in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Lewís most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Lewís 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 Lewís?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,335,098 people named Luiz in 2022, about 1 in 159 residents.
How common is Lewís compared with other names?
In Mexico, Lewís is the 4th most common given name of 193,485 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, “Lewís” — the 4th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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