Surname statistics for Lewis

There are approximately 176,909 people named Lewis in the UK. That makes it the 21th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 2,800 are named Lewis.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)17690921N/A2800
United Kingdom (1881 census)78736250.2632629
Change since 1881+98173+4+0.017+171
Other Countries
United States50993026N/A1890
Australia1845847N/A1129

Politics

People with the surname Lewis are about as likely to be politicians as the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Lewis are:

  1. Conservative (25)
  2. Labour (21)
  3. Independent (6)
  4. Liberal Democrat (4)
  5. SNP (1)
  6. UKIP (1)
  7. Plaid Cymru (1)
  8. United Alliance (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Lewis
John Lewis
Richard Lewis
Michael Lewis
Mark Lewis
Peter Lewis
Paul Lewis
Robert Lewis
Stephen Lewis
Andrew Lewis
Christopher Lewis
Simon Lewis
James Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Ian Lewis
Jonathan Lewis
Martin Lewis
Steven Lewis
William Lewis
Brian Lewis

Top female forenames

Susan Lewis
Sarah Lewis
Karen Lewis
Patricia Lewis
Margaret Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis
Jane Lewis
Helen Lewis
Jacqueline Lewis
Julie Lewis
Christine Lewis
Linda Lewis
Janet Lewis
Deborah Lewis
Barbara Lewis
Sandra Lewis
Catherine Lewis
Angela Lewis
Mary Lewis
Gillian Lewis

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.