Luigi

given name · Italian · Latin script

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

Luigi is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Italy it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Italian and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 126◐
  • ITItaly1 in 322
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈739K ●

across 12 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
313 ●

254K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 126 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

LuigiLatin · Italian●174K records
ሉኢጊEthiopic · Amharic●0 records
ԼուիջիArmenian · Armenian●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Luigi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—539,110△20K rec.1 in 126539KLuigi266
US United States—181,802△42K rec.1 in 1.8K182KLuigi313
IT Italy#39156,935140K rec.—838Luigi245
VE Venezuela—13,7726.5K rec.——Luigi57
PH Philippines—11,6107K rec.—listedLuigi69
BR Brazil—9,1778.8K rec.1 in 23K9.2KLuigi138
PE Peru—8,6527.1K rec.——Luigi49
MX Mexico—3,1552.7K rec.—5Luigi83
GB United Kingdom—3,1452.7K rec.—1.1KLuigi123
AR Argentina—3,0512.1K rec.—233Luigi54
SE Sweden—2,846△91 rec.1 in 3.6K2.8K—26
BE Belgium#6772,8213.3K rec.—4KLuigi72

Roughly 539K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 126). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Italian174K32%
  • Portuguese110K20%
  • English66K12%
  • German51K9%
  • Spanish48K9%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Italian173,66232%
Portuguese110,13620%
English65,70912%
German50,6559%
Spanish48,1749%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Luigi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name131K records spelled Luigi26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Germany, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lüigï, Lųiği, Lüigi, Luigì, Ľűīģī

  • Croatian given name8.2K records spelled Luigi41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Croatia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Луиджи, Luiđi, Луіджі, Luidzhi, Луїджі

  • Finnish given name1.8K records spelled Luigi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Finland, Hungary, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Lùígì

  • Turkish given name1.5K records spelled Luigi10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Türkiye, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh

    Also written Luiği, Luïgi, Lùìgì, Luìgì

  • Thai given name1.3K records spelled Luigi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Laos, Thailand, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Ĺuigi

49 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.

Other recorded senses●

Luigi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Famoso in battaglia

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • Italian: vernacular form of LOUIS ; cf. LODOVICO .

    as a word

  • In Esperanto, to rent (something to someone)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

02040608019001950200080 · 1969

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Luigi in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1900–2025
Yearrecords
19005
19026
19056
19077
19086
191010
19116
191217
191328
191429
191540
191630
191740
191829
191926
192036
192134
192239
192339
192433
192530
192632
192730
192829
192923
193023
193115
193214
193311
19347
193511
193614
19378
193812
19398
19405
194112
19429
194312
19455
19465
19477
194813
194913
19508
195117
19529
195314
195413
195515
195612
195715
195823
195934
196033
196143
196235
196351
196458
196545
196648
196760
196860
196980
197072
197162
197257
197356
197451
197557
197651
197751
197845
197962
198054
198164
198250
198349
198441
198542
198632
198748
198873
198961
199066
199154
199265
199350
199445
199550
199650
199745
199850
199943
200061
200154
200261
200355
200452
200570
200650
200757
200857
200952
201046
201136
201235
201344
201451
201541
201638
201742
201833
201938
202037
202132
202241
202338
202449
202552

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 120 years between 1900–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Louis de France, b. 1682Luigi Galvani, b. 1737Gaspare Spontini, b. 1774Leo XIII, b. 1810Luigi Pirandello, b. 1867Luigi Einaudi, b. 1874Luigi Dallapiccola, b. 1904Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, b. 1918Dario Fo, b. 1926Luigi Di Maio, b. 1986
  • Louis de Franceb. 1682FRnot in their usual nameFrench duke (1682-1712)
  • Luigi Galvanib. 1737ITItalian physician, physicist, and philosopher
  • Gaspare Spontinib. 1774FRnot in their usual nameItalian composer and conductor
  • Leo XIIIb. 1810ITnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
  • Luigi Pirandellob. 1867ITItalian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet (1867-1936)
  • Luigi Einaudib. 1874IT(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
  • Luigi Dallapiccolab. 1904ITItalian composer (1904–1975)
  • Oscar Luigi Scalfarob. 1918IT9th President of Italy (1918–2012)
  • Dario Fob. 1926ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
  • Luigi Di Maiob. 1986ITItalian politician (born 1986)

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●

Attested in 84 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Luigi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20229.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9.1K#1,828
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206K#3,464
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—5.4K#3,223
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.5K#2,744
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.4K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.4K#599
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,651
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1K#1,241
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024838#46
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—342#3,591
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026298#994

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 768 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luigi?
We estimate roughly 739 thousand people bear Luigi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Luigi have the most bearers?
We estimate about 539 thousand people bear Luigi in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luigi.
Where is Luigi most common?
Luigi is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 126 people carrying it.
How common is Luigi compared with other names?
In Italy, Luigi is the 39th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
Is Luigi a male or female name?
Luigi 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.
What does the name Luigi mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Luigi” — the 39th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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