Luis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Lms or Luis, from French Louis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lwis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Luis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 31(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 57
- CRCosta Rica1 in 61
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 Luis 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)
- #35 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 632 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31 (inferred from the name graph)
1,335,098 named Luiz, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Louis in US United States 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 the personal name Lms or Luis, from French Louis.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Luis 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 | #15 | 1,335,098as Luiz | 1 in 159 | 1.3M | Luis | 267 |
| CO Colombia | #6 | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 75 | 594 | Luis | 246 |
| PE Peru | #3 | ≈560,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | 557K | Luis | 190 |
| EC Ecuador | #2 | 539,474 | 1 in 31 | 539K | Luis | 157 |
| US United States | #101 | 489,968 | 1 in 679 | 532K | Louis | 632 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 83 | 494K | Lüïs | 152 |
| CR Costa Rica | #1 | 83,998 | 1 in 61 | 84K | Luis | 173 |
1,335,098 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling luiz. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Luis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, louis (currency)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Luis är en spansk och tysk form av → Louis (Ludvig).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, forma reduzida de Luisi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Aloisi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Guerrero ilustre
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Manuel L. Quezonb. 1878PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
- Luis Buñuelb. 1900ESSpanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)
- Luis Carrero Blancob. 1904ESSpanish admiral and politician
- Luis Walter Alvarezb. 1911USAmerican experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
- Luís Cabralb. 1931GWPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (1931-2009)
- Luis de la Fuenteb. 1961ESSpanish football manager (born 1961)
- Luis Abinaderb. 1967LBPresident of the Dominican Republic
- Luís Figob. 1972PTPortuguese football player (born 1972)
- Ronaldob. 1976BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1976)
- Luis Alberto Suárezb. 1987UYUruguayan association football player
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 141 sources across 66 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 936K | #36 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 932K | #11 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 838K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 834K | #16 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 557K | #2 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 539K | #2 |
| GT Guatemala | RENAP — annual births | 2024 | 494K | #4 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 489K | #91 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 84K | #3 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 37K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.4K | #16 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.5K | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- In which country does Luis have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Luiz, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Luis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luis is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 31 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Luis mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Lms or Luis, from French Louis. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Luis a male or female name?
- Luis 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.
- How do you pronounce Luis?
- A machine transcription gives /lwis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Luis?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 539,474 people named Luis in 2024, about 1 in 31 residents.
- How common is Luis compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Luis is the 15th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Luis?
- In the etymology graph, Luigi, Louie and Gino are forms of the same name in other languages; Lucho is a recorded short or pet form.
What do you want to know about Luis?
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/luisThe 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, “Luis” — the 15th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.