Luz
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: light
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name.
- COColombia≈1 in 101(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 198
- ECEcuador1 in 246
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #345 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 434 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101 (inferred from the name graph)
≈490,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lüz in DO Dominican Republic.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
religious byname from a title of the Virgin Mary, Spanish Maria de la Luz, Portuguese Maria da Luz ‘Mary of Light’ (from Latin lux, genitive lucis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Luz is read(measured from records)
Luz is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish77%
light
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latín lux, 'luz'; nombre mariano, asociado a la luz divina.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English10%
A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #10 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 101 | 352 | Luz | 195 |
| PE Peru | #16 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | 207K | Luz | 119 |
| US United States | #859 | 90,901 | 1 in 3.7K | 90K | Luz | 434 |
| VE Venezuela | #66 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 381 | — | Luz | 86 |
| EC Ecuador | #861 | 68,832 | 1 in 246 | 69K | Luz | 60 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 294 | 929 | Lüz | 67 |
| PY Paraguay | #603 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 271 | — | Luz | 47 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENIEC — DNI population names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Luz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
religious byname from a title of the Virgin Mary, Spanish Maria de la Luz, Portuguese Maria da Luz ‘Mary of Light’ (from Latin lux, genitive lucis).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Marian name honouring Nuestra Senora de la Luz ‘Our Lady of Light’. M
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
ornamental name from Hebrew luz ‘almond’, a translation of Mandel.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luz Márquezb. 1935ESSpanish actress
- Luz Marina Zuluagab. 1938COColombian beauty queen (1938–2015)
- Luz Salgadob. 1949PEPeruvian politician
- Luz Casalb. 1958ESSpanish singer
- Luz María Jerezb. 1958MXMexican actress (born 1958)
- Luz María Zetinab. 1973MXMexican actress
- Luz Elena Gonzálezb. 1974MXMexican actress
- Luz Valdenebrob. 1975ESSpanish actress and model
- Luz Valdiviesob. 1977CLChilean actress
- Luz Acostab. 1980MXMexican weightlifter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 207K | #4 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90K | #586 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 69K | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #586 |
| DO Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023 | 2023 | 929 | #7 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 352 | #10 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 324 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 171 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Luz mean?
- In Spanish, light
- How do you pronounce Luz?
- A machine transcription gives /luθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Luz come from?
- religious byname from a title of the Virgin Mary, Spanish Maria de la Luz, Portuguese Maria da Luz ‘Mary of Light’ (from Latin lux, genitive lucis). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Luz a male or female name?
- Luz is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Luz?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Cindy and Lucy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Luz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 488 thousand people named Luz in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luz.
- How common is the name Luz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 90,901 people named Luz in 2020, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Luz compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Luz is the 10th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Luz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luzThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luz” — the 10th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.