Lewis
Latin at root, from a name meaning "renowned warrior". In Poland it stays rare and exclusively male: just over a hundred men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Lewis Pronunciation
Lewis is pronounced LE-vees (/ˈlɛvis/).
What Lewis means
Where Lewis comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lewis reached English through Latin. Clerks wrote it as Ludovicus in charters and church registers, and that Latin form fixed a meaning that held: renowned warrior. The name looks plain.
Lewis Carroll wore the name as a mask. Charles Dodgson, a mathematician at Oxford, latinized his own first names and reworked them into the pen name that fronts Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The renowned warrior turned into a teller of riddles.
The warrior sense sits oddly on a modern boy. It came from old battle-words, and renowned warrior is the reading the record keeps. On a Polish class register the name reads as a foreign guest, with no imieniny of its own. The meaning stays exact: sławny wojownik, a renowned warrior.
How many people are named Lewis
1 in 201379 men in Poland is named Lewis. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3317 among male names.
Lewis's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Lewis as a middle name
Lewis is a first name for 106 men in Poland and a middle name for another 102, a 51/49 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 705th, between Jonas (102) and Natanael (102).
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#703 Antonius102
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#704 Jonas102
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#705 Lewis102
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#706 Natanael102
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#707 Uriel102