Lew

Lew is the 4,705th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,305 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,305
Rank: 4,705th
How common: 1 in 40,900
Per 100,000: 2.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lew described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 68.8%
White, not Hispanic 18.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Lew

Jack Lew (born 1955)American lawyer and diplomat

People named Lew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lew

Also a first name

Lew has been given to 2,208 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1959. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.