Name profile

Lewis

Medieval English form of Louis.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#433

Meaning and history

Lewis is a medieval English form of Louis. Notable bearers include Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), whose surname was Lewis and who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 333 births, rank #678
2007: 340 births, rank #694
2008: 386 births, rank #636
2009: 326 births, rank #725
2010: 326 births, rank #714
20112011: 371 births, rank #630
2012: 378 births, rank #636
2013: 389 births, rank #634
2014: 463 births, rank #594
2015: 495 births, rank #568
20162016: 592 births, rank #506
2017: 521 births, rank #542
2018: 510 births, rank #547
2019: 507 births, rank #556
2020: 588 births, rank #497
20212021: 609 births, rank #485
2022: 623 births, rank #489
2023: 648 births, rank #470
2024: 734 births, rank #431
20252025: 736 births, rank #433

Lewis moved from #432 to #433 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 2,712 births.