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The LEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,304 4464 0.003 27
United States (1880 census) 344 12898 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +6960 +8434 +0.002 +20
Other Countries
Australia 441 3597 0.003 27
United Kingdom 121 22006 0 3
Top States for LEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,499 910 0.010 103
New York 927 1995 0.005 49
Washington 304 2426 0.005 52
Texas 278 6889 0.001 13
New Jersey 242 4001 0.003 29
Top States for LEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,499 910 0.010 103
Washington 304 2426 0.005 52
New York 927 1995 0.005 49
Washington DC 24 2462 0.004 42
Wyoming 19 3714 0.004 38

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one 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!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

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 USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LEW live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LEW represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LEW in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LEW by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LEW

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEW surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 293 4.01
White (Hispanic) 200 2.74
Black/African American 62 0.85
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.11
Asian/Pacific 5,336 73.06
White (Caucasian) 1,405 19.24

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LEW surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LEW in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LEW.

Similar names to LEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEW.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LEW

The following words are slight variants of LEW that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.