Luiz

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Luiz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis; variant form Luís.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 159(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4Kas Leo
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4Kas Levi

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Luiz 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)

1,335,098 people, 2022

#249 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
526 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LuizLatin(measured from records)
เลวิสThai(measured from records)
레비Hangul(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Levy in US United States.

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, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis; variant form Luís

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Luiz 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.

Where Luiz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#71,335,0981 in 1591.3MLuiz284
US United States—136,747as Levi1 in 2.4K532KLevy526
ES Spain—36,280as Leo1 in 1.4K36KLuiz104
SE Sweden—23,276as Leo1 in 43823K—36
FI Finland—19,003as Leo1 in 29331KLuiz14
HR Croatia—2,914as Leo1 in 1.5K4.3K—2

1,335,098 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Luiz is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Luíz

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Brazil

    Also written Luíz, Luïz, Lùiz, Lüïż, Luìz

  • Spanish given name96 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Lluis, Luis, Lluís, Lewis, Луис

  • Norwegian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Luxembourg

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Luíz

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Luxembourg, United Kingdom

    Also written Luíz

  • Polish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written ̶l̶u̶i̶z̶, Luíz

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Luíz

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Manuel L. Quezon, b. 1878Luis Carrero Blanco, b. 1904Luis Walter Alvarez, b. 1911Luís Cabral, b. 1931Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, b. 1945Luis de la Fuente, b. 1961Luis Abinader, b. 1967Eduardo Saverin, b. 1982David Luiz, b. 1987Luis Alberto Suárez, b. 1987
  • Manuel L. Quezonb. 1878PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
  • Luis Carrero Blancob. 1904ESnot in their usual nameSpanish admiral and politician
  • Luis Walter Alvarezb. 1911USnot in their usual nameAmerican experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
  • Luís Cabralb. 1931GWnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (1931-2009)
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvab. 1945BRpresident of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023
  • Luis de la Fuenteb. 1961ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football manager (born 1961)
  • Luis Abinaderb. 1967LBnot in their usual namePresident of the Dominican Republic
  • Eduardo Saverinb. 1982BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
  • David Luizb. 1987BRBrazilian association football player
  • Luis Alberto Suárezb. 1987UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 71 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Luiz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,726
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#17,449
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,699
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—209#16,015
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—209#15,962

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Luiz mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis; variant form Luís Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Luiz?
In the etymology graph, Louie, Gino and Alois are forms of the same name in other languages; Luisinho is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Luiz 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 it is most often spelled luiz.
Where is Luiz most common?
Luiz is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 159 people carrying it.
Is Luiz a male or female name?
Luiz 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 common is the name Luiz?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,335,098 people named Luiz in 2022, about 1 in 159 residents.
How common is Luiz compared with other names?
In Brazil, Luiz is the 7th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Luiz” — the 7th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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