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Lewin

#5,513 in 2025Boys' name

English surname transferred into given-name use

Lewin has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #5,513 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Lewin, 2025

1 in 195,000

Lewin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lewin: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

English surname transfer

What Lewin means

Lewin is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lewin is used in English (Rare).

The naming story behind Lewin

Lewin is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 boys were recorded with the name Lewin between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,692 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,159 in 2020 to #5,513 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,229 in 2015 to #5,513 in 2025.

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.

How common is Lewin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,513
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lewin 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lewin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lewins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lewin was born before 2014 — so the typical Lewin is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
183
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Choose a decade

2020s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Lewin 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
−161
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+646
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,716
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.4%
Peak was 2023 (18)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,692
1920

Spellings of Lewin

Lewin is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 52.0% against Lewin's 0.01%.

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.

Lewin around the world

Where Lewin 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2019
    #5,446
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1946–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lewin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,513
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 646
Best rank ever
#2,692
1920
Peak year
2023
18 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Lewin

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

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Sibling names for Lewin

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

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