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The LEWEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 692 31592 0 3
United States (1880 census) 126 26808 0 3
Change since 1880 +566 -4784 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 378887 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LEWEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 101 4810 0.002 23
Illinois 96 13815 0.001 8
Texas 52 25473 0.000 2
Maine 43 4184 0.003 34
California 39 52799 0.000 1
Top States for LEWEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 43 4184 0.003 34
Alabama 101 4810 0.002 23
Iowa 30 14554 0.001 10
Vermont 6 13715 0.001 10
New Hampshire 12 12995 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of LEWEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LEWEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of LEWEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 578 83.53
Native American/Alaskan 64 9.25
Mixed Race 22 3.18
White (Hispanic) 11 1.59
Black/African American 10 1.45
Asian/Pacific 7 1.01

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

LEWEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LEWEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to LEWEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEWEY.

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 LEWEY

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