Luigi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luid͡ʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luigi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 252(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.1K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.3K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 252 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Luigi is read(measured from records)
Luigi is one spelling over 5 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.
- Italian51%
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luigi in Spanish.
- French8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luigi in French.
- Portuguese6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Luigi in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Luigi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luigi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #28 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 252 | 838 | Luigi | 271 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,177 | 1 in 23K | 9.2K | Luigi | 138 |
| FR France | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 4.5K | Luigi | 272 |
| US United States | — | 5,993 | 1 in 56K | 6K | Luigi | 343 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Luigi | 71 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Luigi | 58 |
| BE Belgium | #651 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 2 | Luigi | 79 |
| CH Switzerland | #438 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 3 | Luigi | 96 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Luigi 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.
Famoso in battaglia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian: vernacular form of LOUIS ; cf. LODOVICO .
as a word
In Esperanto, to rent (something to someone)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Louis de Franceb. 1682FRnot in their usual nameFrench duke (1682-1712)
- Luigi Galvanib. 1737ITItalian physician, physicist, and philosopher
- Gaspare Spontinib. 1774FRnot in their usual nameItalian composer and conductor
- Leo XIIIb. 1810ITnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
- Luigi Pirandellob. 1867ITItalian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet (1867-1936)
- Luigi Einaudib. 1874IT(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
- Luigi Dallapiccolab. 1904ITItalian composer (1904–1975)
- Oscar Luigi Scalfarob. 1918IT9th President of Italy (1918–2012)
- Dario Fob. 1926ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
- Luigi Di Maiob. 1986ITItalian politician (born 1986)
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 87 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 9.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.1K | #1,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,464 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.4K | #3,223 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.5K | #2,744 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.4K | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 838 | #46 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 80 | #1,828 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 52 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #3,464 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Luigi a male or female name?
- Luigi 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.
- What does the name Luigi mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Luigi?
- In the etymology graph, Luis, Louie and Alois are forms of the same name in other languages; Gino and Luigino are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Luigi?
- A machine transcription gives /luid͡ʒi/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Luigi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 248 thousand people named Luigi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luigi.
- How common is the name Luigi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,177 people named Luigi in 2022, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Luigi compared with other names?
- In Italy, Luigi is the 28th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Luigi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luigiThe 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, “Luigi” — the 28th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.