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Luis vs Luisalfredo

American parents have registered 294,500 Luises since 1880, against 22 Luisalfredos. Luis is still ahead, with 2,482 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luis against Luisalfredo, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luis Luisalfredo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Luis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Luis had 4,079 and Luisalfredo had 14.

Side by side

  Luis Luisalfredo
Total US births 294,50022
Most in one year 8,06614
Babies in 2025 2,482under 5
Estimated living today 271,00020
Median age today 2739
Peak year 20071986
Best rank 60th boys3,268th boys
Rank in 2025 144thunranked
First recorded 18801986
Girls / boys 1,541 / 292,9590 / 22

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Luisalfredos alive today are over 39; half the Luises are over 27. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Luis and Luisalfredo.