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Luisana vs Luiz

American parents have registered 3,349 Luizes since 1880, against 603 Luisanas. Luiz is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luisana against Luiz, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luisana 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

Of the 102 years in which either name was published, Luiz for 100 years and Luisana for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Luisana Luiz
Total US births 6033,349
Most in one year 131112
Babies in 2025 628
Estimated living today 5903,000
Median age today 3827
Peak year 19832000
Best rank 1,060th girls1,208th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th3,848th
First recorded 19821915
Girls / boys 603 / 00 / 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 Luisanas alive today are over 38; half the Luizes are over 27. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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