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Luisangel vs Luiz

American parents have registered 3,349 Luizes since 1880, against 1,389 Luisangels. Luiz is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Luisangel 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 94 years and Luisangel for 8 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Luisangel Luiz
Total US births 1,3893,349
Most in one year 84112
Babies in 2025 1328
Estimated living today 1,4003,000
Median age today 1927
Peak year 20062000
Best rank 1,684th boys1,208th boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th3,848th
First recorded 19841915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,3890 / 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 Luizes alive today are over 27; half the Luisangels are over 19. That is 8 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: Luisangel and Luiz.