Luísa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Luís, equivalent to English Louise
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luizɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luísa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 16th most common given name.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 457
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 480
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 Luísa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #370 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 411 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 330 (inferred from the name graph)
290,525 named Luiza, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Luisa in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more and Louisa in SE Sweden, DK Denmark.
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 female given name, masculine equivalent Luís, equivalent to English Louise
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luísa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #258 | 290,525as Luiza | 1 in 729 | 291K | Luisa | 202 |
| CO Colombia | #51 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 457 | 81 | Luisa | 189 |
| US United States | #687 | 96,368as Louise | 1 in 3.5K | 95K | Luisa | 411 |
| VE Venezuela | #45 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 330 | — | Luisa | 79 |
| AR Argentina | #140 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 681 | 1.5K | Luisa | 118 |
| SE Sweden | — | 56,304as Louise | 1 in 181 | 56K | Louisa | 43 |
| ES Spain | #59 | 39,170 | 1 in 1.3K | 43K | Luisa | 207 |
| DK Denmark | #720 | 23,824as Louise | 1 in 246 | 24K | Louisa | 63 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #16 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 480 | 795 | Luisa | 68 |
290,525 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling luiza. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Dominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-2023; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luísa Ducla Soaresb. 1939PTPortuguese writer
- Luísa Costa Gomesb. 1954PTPortuguese chronicler, librettist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Luísa Diogob. 1958MZMozambican politician (1958–2026)
- Luísa Merelasb. 1958ESSpanish actress
- Luísa Ortigosob. 1958PTPortuguese actress
- Maria Luísa Mendonçab. 1970BRBrazilian actress
- Luísa Sobralb. 1987PTPortuguese singer, writer and songwriter
- Isabella Leongb. 1988CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer
- Luisa Maria van Belgiëb. 1995BEBelgian and Austro-Este Imperial and Royal
- Luísa Sonzab. 1998BRBrazilian singer-songwriter
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 18 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 69K | #624 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,558 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #10,095 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Luísa mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Luís, equivalent to English Louise Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Luísa?
- A machine transcription gives /luizɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Luísa a male or female name?
- Luísa 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 Luísa?
- In the etymology graph, Louise, Gina and Luiza are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Luísa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 291 thousand people named Luiza, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Luísa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 39,170 people named Luísa, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Luísa compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Luísa is the 258th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Luísa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lu%C3%ADsaThe 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, “Luísa” — the 258th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.