Lúís
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lúís is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Louis, name of several kings of France.
- ECEcuador1 in 31(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 54
- PEPeru≈1 in 60
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lúís itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #35 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 632 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Luis in MX Mexico, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 3 more and Lüïs in GT Guatemala.
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)From Louis, name of several kings of France.
Cited for this meaning 8
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lúís 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #4 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | 16K | Luis | 315 |
| BR Brazil | #15 | 1,335,098as Luiz | 1 in 159 | 1.3M | Luis | 267 |
| CO Colombia | #6 | ≈970,000 est. | ≈1 in 54 | 594 | Luis | 246 |
| PE Peru | #3 | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 60 | 557K | Luis | 190 |
| EC Ecuador | #2 | 539,474 | 1 in 31 | 539K | Luis | 157 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 61 | 494K | Lüïs | 152 |
| CR Costa Rica | #1 | 83,998 | 1 in 61 | 84K | Luis | 173 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; RENAP — annual births; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lúís mean, and where does it come from?
- From Louis, name of several kings of France. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Lúís a male or female name?
- Lúís is a male 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.
- In which country does Lúís have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Lúís in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luis.
- Where is Lúís most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lúís is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 31 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lúís?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 539,474 people named Lúís in 2024, about 1 in 31 residents.
- How common is Lúís compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Lúís is the 4th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BA%C3%ADsThe 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, “Lúís” — the 4th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.