girls:
15 births since 1929
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1880
#2693 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1880
#5589 (28th percentile)
The name Lew is the #5,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,203 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 27.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,693 (41.2% percentile) for all time with 2,188 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1929.
Lew has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1929 for girls). Birth data for Lew is available in 111 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (111 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lew has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lew reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 7.6% percentile (ranked #605) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 169 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lew ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lew reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #592) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1957.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lew".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lew. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lew is pronounced as lue, which has 1 syllables.
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