Luiz

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Luiz is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis; variant form Luís.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 159◐
  • LALaos1 in 963
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4K

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

≈1.7M ●

across 13 countries

#52 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
463 ●

2.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 159 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

LuizLatin · Portuguese●22M records
เลวิสThai · Thai●148 records
레비Hangul · Korean●2 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Levy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 7 more and Leo in LA Laos, TH Thailand.

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, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis; variant form Luís

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Luiz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#61,335,0982M rec.1 in 1591.3MLuiz276
US United States—135,782467K rec.1 in 2.5K532KLevy463
FR France—122,390△76 rec.1 in 554122K—13
ES Spain—36,280△3.2K rec.1 in 1.4K36KLuiz99
GB United Kingdom—23,37021K rec.—3.3KLevy168
SE Sweden—23,276△257 rec.1 in 43823K—38
FI Finland—19,003△333 rec.1 in 29331KLuiz14
MX Mexico—12,57312K rec.—28Luiz99
AU Australia—12,33812K rec.—815Levy145
CA Canada—10,04810K rec.—141Levy144
PL Poland—6,578△29 rec.1 in 5.8K6.6K—3
AR Argentina—5,4726K rec.—2.4KLuiz61

Roughly 1.3M people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 159). 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●

  • Portuguese22M94%
  • English1.4M6%
  • Spanish42K1%
  • ptbr28K1%
  • 9.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese22,465,22994%
English1,369,3476%
Spanish41,6981%
ptbr27,5321%
9,1071%

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◐

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 given name20K records spelled Luiz2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Luíz

  • French given name11K records spelled Luiz9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Luíz, Luìz, Luïz, Lùiz, Lüïż

  • Polish given name5.4K records spelled Luiz147 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Spain, Czechia, France

    Languages: Polish, Spanish, Czech

    Also written Ludwik, Lluis, Ludvik, Louis, Luis

  • Danish given name4.3K records spelled Luiz5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Luíz

  • Hungarian given name2.7K records spelled Luiz2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Luíz

  • Polish given name2.0K records spelled Luiz3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Luíz, ̶L̶u̶i̶z̶

  • Indonesian given name1.9K records spelled Luiz4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Peru

    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.

Over time●

050100150192019401960198020002020112 · 2000

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Luiz in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19155
19175
19197
19208
19216
19227
19236
19246
192511
19268
19279
192811
192914
193010
19317
19329
19338
193410
19367
19378
19395
19405
19445
194610
19479
19488
19497
19509
19518
195214
195312
19547
195510
195611
19575
19585
19609
19618
196215
196311
196412
196514
196617
196713
196821
196915
197022
197126
197219
197324
197421
197523
197625
197732
197822
197926
198034
198146
198233
198338
198440
198539
198648
198755
198865
198976
199084
199173
199291
199385
199472
199570
199689
199781
1998105
1999108
2000112
2001112
200295
200375
200471
200581
200671
200784
200866
200965
201050
201146
201238
201338
201432
201541
201637
201739
201816
201925
202019
202127
202232
202331
202419
202528

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 102 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 69 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Luiz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.3M—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3M#10
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.1M#32
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—1.1M#9
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202056K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.8K#10
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.7K#3,530
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
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—378—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—268#1,493

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 2026-09-12 data build · 491 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Luiz?
We estimate roughly 1.7 million people bear Luiz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Luiz have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Luiz in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, 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.
How common is Luiz compared with other names?
In Brazil, Luiz is the 6th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Luiz mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis; variant form Luís
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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, “Luiz” — the 6th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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