Lew
Lew is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 389th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195955 births
- Best rank
- #389in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,188people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,188 boys have been named Lew in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lew | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 127 | |
| 1890s | 66 | |
| 1900s | 69 | |
| 1910s | 212 | |
| 1920s | 238 | |
| 1930s | 300 | |
| 1940s | 313 | |
| 1950s | 394 | |
| 1960s | 250 | |
| 1970s | 106 | |
| 1980s | 72 | |
| 1990s | 18 | |
| 2010s | 6 | |
| 2020s | 17 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Lew was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Lew
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bertpeak 1918
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Hirampeak 1920
- Dolphuspeak 1930
- Minorpeak 1920
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Burtpeak 1956
- Irapeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.