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First name origins & meanings:

  1. German: Famed warrior
  2. Latin: Soothing

First name variations: Lewis, Lewes, Luis, Louie, Lewie, Lou, Lu, Ludwig, Ludvig, Luigi, Lodovico, Luthias, Llewellyn, Clovis, Chlodwig, Lajos, Louis, Luyciyan, Lushun, Lucian

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Polish: from the personal name Lew ‘lion’, adopted as a translation of Leon (see Lyon 2).
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Lev.
  3. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or burial-mound, Old English hlǣw, or a habitational name from Lew in Oxfordshire, named with this word.
  4. Chinese: variant of Liu 1.
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