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Luisalfredo vs Luiz

American parents have registered 3,349 Luizes since 1880, against 22 Luisalfredos. Luiz is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luisalfredo against Luiz, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luisalfredo Luiz

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

Luiz has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1915 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Luisalfredo had 14 and Luiz had 48.

Side by side

  Luisalfredo Luiz
Total US births 223,349
Most in one year 14112
Babies in 2025 under 528
Estimated living today 203,000
Median age today 3927
Peak year 19862000
Best rank 3,268th boys1,208th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,848th
First recorded 19861915
Girls / boys 0 / 220 / 3,349

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 Luizes 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: Luisalfredo and Luiz.