as a First Name
English form, since the Middle Ages, of the French name Louis. In modern use it is also in part a transferred use of the surname derived from this given name, or from Anglicized forms of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’ or Welsh Llewelyn.
| 495th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 90,019
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 132,172
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Lewis per capita
- 1912
- marked the height of its popularity
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59%
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28%
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7%
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6%
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