Lewa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Swahili: to be drunk
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lewa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lewa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 324K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 324K (inferred from the name graph)
118 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to be drunk
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Lewa is read(measured from records)
Lewa is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swahili68%
to be drunk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lewa in Indonesian.
- English7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lewa in English.
- Polish7.1%
trick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lewa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 118 | 1 in 324K | 92 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 1 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | Lewa | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Lewa | 35 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Lewa | 41 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Lewa | 18 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | — | — | Lewa | 5 |
118 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lewa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Lev.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In tpi, alternative form of liva
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌰
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to bend, to contort
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Józef Lehrerb. 1880UAnot in their usual namePolish conductor and composer (1880–1941)
- Tom Lehrerb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (1928–2025)
- Robert Lehrerb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Andy Lehrerb. 1930ROnot in their usual nameRomanian entomologist (1930-2014)
- Jim Lehrerb. 1934USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1934-2020)
- Keith Lehrerb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican philosopher
- Kate Lehrerb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
- Brian Lehrerb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican radio talk show host
- Mia Lehrerb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican architect
- Jonah Lehrerb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican science writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 92 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 92 | #32,055 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,515 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lewa mean, and where does it come from?
- to be drunk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lewa?
- A machine transcription gives /lewa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Lewa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 118 people named Lewa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lewa most common?
- Lewa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 324 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lewa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 118 people named Lewa in 2026, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lewa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lewaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lewa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.