Luis

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Luis boys named Luis

By the numbers

Total US births

294,500

Estimated living today

271,000

Median age today

27

Peak year

2007

Best rank

60th

Rank in 2025

144th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

1,541 / 292,959

How old the living Luises are

born that year still alive today

Of the 294,500 babies given the name since 1880, about 271,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 68,000 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

and Portuguese Luís.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Luiss

• Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
• Luis Suárez (born 1987)Uruguayan association football player
• Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)Spanish-Mexican filmmaker
• Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988)American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor
• Luís Figo (born 1972)Portuguese football player
• Luis Enrique (born 1970)Spanish footballer and manager
• Luis de Góngora (1561–1627)Spanish Baroque lyric poet
• Luis Arce (born 1963)Bolivian politician and president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025

People named Luis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Luis is most common

• CA81,121
• TX62,293
• NY30,713
• FL14,054
• IL13,666
• AZ12,442
• NJ10,181
• MA5,014
• PA4,850
• CO4,550

Relative to how many babies each state records, Luis is most concentrated in Arizona (3.5×), Texas (2.8×), California (2.8×), New Mexico (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Luis peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Christopher

All the names of 2007

Luis elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Luis: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Luis is most concentrated in Schaffhausen, where 0.29% of children were given it – 43 of them.

Luis: rank by region

In 2025, Luis was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Luis was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Luis was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luis appears in the lists for Province of Liège (93rd) and Province of Hainaut (174th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Luis by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Luis among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Luis lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 173,748 men called Luis were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Luisa
• Luigi
• Luiz
• Luisangel
• Luiza
• Luisana
• Luise

Luis against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Luis vs Luisa
• Luis vs Luigi
• Luis vs Luiz
• Luis vs Luisangel
• Luis vs Luiza
• Luis vs Luisana

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