Luzia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luzia is a 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.
- BRBrazil1 in 994(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 6.1K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 7.3K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 994 (inferred from the name graph)
212,889 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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.
Sources 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 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 3 | Luzia | 33 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 11 | Luzia | 93 |
| PT Portugal | #500 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | listed | Luzia | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | #500 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 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)
- Luzzi Baierlb. 1924ATnot in their usual nameAustrian singer
- Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjelb. 1926NLDutch architect and urban planner (1926–2011)
- Adélia Pradob. 1935BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian writer and poet
- Luzia Moldenhauerb. 1959DEGerman politician
- Luzia María Bizerrab. 1968AOAngolan handball player
- Luzia Zbergb. 1970CHSwiss racing cyclist
- Luzia Ebnötherb. 1971CHSwiss female curler and coach
- Luzia Simãob. 1992AOAngolan basketball player (born 1992)
- Luzia Oppermannb. 1994ATAustrian actress
- Luzia Piresb. 2003chess 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 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 259K | #195 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 258K | #53 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 213K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 212K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 212K | #150 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 211K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 206K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 921 | #150 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 670 | #5,042 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 591 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Standesamt — Vornamenstatistik PDF (official publication) | 2024 | 11 | #158 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2024 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Luzia mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Luzia have the most bearers?
- 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.
- Where is Luzia most common?
- Luzia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 994 people carrying it.
- Is Luzia a male or female name?
- Luzia 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 Luzia?
- In the etymology graph, Lucia, Cindy and Lucy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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 2026-10-10.