Lewin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Lefwine, Old English Leofwine 'dear friend'; also from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Guillin, or from German/Polish Levin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫuɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lewin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 25K
- DEGermany≈1 in 47K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
5,088 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Lefwine, Old English Leofwine 'dear friend'; also from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Guillin, or from German/Polish Levin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lewin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,088 | 1 in 65K | 5.1K | Lewin | 356 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Lewin | 190 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Lewin | 97 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Lewin | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Lewin | 138 |
| SE Sweden | — | 465 | 1 in 22K | 465 | Lewin | 40 |
| JM Jamaica | #421 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Lewin | 19 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Lewin | 42 |
5,088 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lewin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE Lēofwine ‘beloved friend’; first attested Wlfricus filius Leofwini 1010 OEByn
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In German, Toponymic surname from the settlement names Lewin or Levin; origin from a settlement name.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, either from LIEB/Liubwin, from a place name Lewin/Levin, or Prussian.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from the Old English personal name Leofwine, composed of the elements /e<?/‘dear’, ‘beloved’ -I- wine ‘friend’. This was the name borne by an English missionary who became the patron saint of Ghent, and the personal name was consequently popular in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Guillin ‘son of the servant of William’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Herwarth Waldenb. 1878DEnot in their usual nameGerman artist and art collector (1878-1941)
- Kurt Lewinb. 1890USGerman-American psychologist (1890-1947)
- Albert Lewinb. 1894USAmerican film director, producer, and screenwriter (1894-1968)
- Moshe Lewinb. 1921FRFrench historian (1921-2010)
- David Lewinb. 1933USAmerican music theorist, music critic and composer (1933–2003)
- Walter Lewinb. 1936NLDutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
- Ben Lewinb. 1946PLAustralian-American film director
- Vladimir Levinb. 1967RUnot in their usual nameRussian computer hacker
- Daniel M. Lewinb. 1970USAmerican-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur
- Blanca Lewinb. 1974CLChilean actress (born 1974)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,595 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,684 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 465 | #1,997 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lewin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Lefwine, Old English Leofwine 'dear friend'; also from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Guillin, or from German/Polish Levin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lewin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫuɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lewin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Lewin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lewin.
- How common is the name Lewin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,088 people named Lewin in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Lewin compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Lewin is the 421st most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lewinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lewin” — the 421st most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.