Luzia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/luˈzi.ɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Luzia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia.
- AOAngola≈1 in 610few records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 994
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.8K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 611 (inferred from the name graph)
212,889 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Galician-PortugueseLuzia(measured from records)
- LatinLūcia(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Luzia 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 | #116 | 212,889 | 1 in 994 | 259K | Luzia | 150 |
| AO Angola | #87 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | 3 | Luzia | 33 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 11 | Luzia | 93 |
| PT Portugal | #500 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Luzia | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | #500 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 4 | Luzia | 45 |
212,889 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the de-munich-standesamt register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Adélia Pradob. 1935BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian writer and poet
- Luzia Moldenhauerb. 1959DEGerman politician
- Luzia Zbergb. 1970CHSwiss racing cyclist
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)47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Luzia mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Luzia?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Cindy and Lucy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Luzia?
- In Portuguese /luˈzi.ɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Luzia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 213 thousand people named Luzia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luzia. After it come Angola, Germany, Portugal and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Luzia a male or female name?
- Luzia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024) and Spain (INE).
- How common is the name Luzia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 212,889 people named Luzia in 2022, about 1 in 994 residents.
- How common is Luzia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Luzia is the 116th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Luzia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luziaThe 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, “Luzia” — the 116th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.