Lewie

Boys' name

Diminutive of Lewis

Lewie has been given to 870 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1937, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Lewie, 2024

1 in 669,000

Lewie over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lewie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Lewis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lewie means

Lewie is a diminutive of Lewis.

Origin, language, and formation

Lewie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lewis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 870 boys were recorded with the name Lewie between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1937; its best national rank was #1,002 in 1880.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Lewie?

Lewie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lewie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lewie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lewies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lewie was born before 1934 — so the typical Lewie is around 91 today.

Median birth year: 1934; About 91 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.3%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 197; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Lewie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1937 (25)
Years since peak: 88; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 45.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,002; 1880

Spellings of Lewie

Lewie is not the most common spelling — Lee is, with 30.0% against Lewie's 0.11%.

Lee30.0%233,627
Levi27.6%215,013
Lewis20.0%155,766
Leslie14.5%112,989
Louie4.0%30,992
Leif1.3%9,997
Elie0.39%3,015
Lennie0.37%2,890

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lewie is used

Across 1910–2025, Lewie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 256,470 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Alabama1 in 100,000
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lewie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lewie around the world

Where Lewie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1997–2025
#1,897
in 2025
Scotland
2006–2024
#727
in 2024
South Australia
2001–2001
#581
in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lewie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,002; 1880
Peak year: 1937; 25 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 870
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lewie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Lewin Howie Bowie Lew Lewi Dewie Lewyn Lewellyn Lewey Lewell Lewis Lewayne Leward Yngwie

Sibling names for Lewie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Marlys Marlyn Shirlee Pearlie Beverley Melva Nelda Arleen

For a brother

Rayford Carol Sherwood Huey Shirley Boyce Arlen Alton

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