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Luisgustavo vs Luiz

American parents have registered 3,349 Luizes since 1880, against 17 Luisgustavos. Luiz is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Luisgustavo 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 2000, when Luisgustavo had 12 and Luiz had 112.

Side by side

  Luisgustavo Luiz
Total US births 173,349
Most in one year 12112
Babies in 2025 under 528
Estimated living today 173,000
Median age today 2527
Peak year 20002000
Best rank 5,588th boys1,208th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,848th
First recorded 20001915
Girls / boys 0 / 170 / 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 Luisgustavos are over 25. That is 2 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: Luisgustavo and Luiz.