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How popular is the name Lewis?

Births per year, rank history and how many Lewises are alive today.

Lewis (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 231st in 2025 with 216 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1999, when 4,916 babies were given the name, the 13th most popular that year. Lewis fell out of the published rankings after 1924 and returned in 1984, a classic revival pattern. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 160,000 babies have been named Lewis in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Lewis is one spelling of a name also recorded as Louis; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Lewis include Lewie.

Across all spellings of the name, the Lewis you are most likely to meet is around 26 years old. Half of all Lewises born in England and Wales are between 19 and 38, and there are at least 170,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 43% chance that at least one of them will be called Lewis.

How many babies are named Lewis each year?

Includes all spellings: Lewis, Louis. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Lewis spelling rank?

Where does the Louis spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.