Luzia
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luzia is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia.
- BRBrazil1 in 994◐
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.2K
- PTPortugal1 in 6.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈214K ●
- #629 ●
- Sources
- 150 ●
- 1 in 994 ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
155K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
- Old Galician-PortugueseLuzia●
- LatinLūcia●
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #121 | 212,889 | 142K rec. | 1 in 994 | 259K | Luzia | 150 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,109 | 4.6K rec. | — | 8 | Luzia | 89 |
| AT Austria | #956 | 1,467 | 186 rec. | — | 378 | Luzia | 53 |
| CH Switzerland | #506 | 1,257 | 512 rec. | — | 4 | Luzia | 42 |
| PT Portugal | #508 | 1,224 | 575 rec. | — | listed | Luzia | 52 |
| AO Angola | #64 | 752 | 591 rec. | — | 3 | Luzia | 30 |
| US United States | — | 514 | 4.1K rec. | 1 in 647K | 514 | Luzia | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 495 | 425 rec. | — | — | Luzia | 33 |
| ES Spain | — | 336 | 249 rec. | 1 in 149K | 336 | Luzia | 30 |
| AR Argentina | — | 298 | 252 rec. | — | 2 | Luzia | 19 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 126 | 74 rec. | — | — | Luzia | 7 |
| AU Australia | — | 124 | 124 rec. | — | — | Luzia | 22 |
Roughly 213K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 994). 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●
- Portuguese3.9M94%
- English216K5%
- German7.2K1%
- Spanish2K1%
- French1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 3,946,496 | 94% |
| English | 216,166 | 5% |
| German | 7,163 | 1% |
| Spanish | 2,013 | 1% |
| French | 1,246 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 3 |
| 1990 | 3 |
| 1991 | 3 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 4 |
| 2003 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 24 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 27 |
| 2024 | 20 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 40 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 45 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 197K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 177K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 142K | — |
| 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 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 183 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Luzia?
- We estimate roughly 214 thousand people bear Luzia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Luzia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 213 thousand people bear Luzia in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, 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.
- How common is Luzia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Luzia is the 121st most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Luzia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Luzia, from Latin Lūcia. Doublet of Lúcia.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luzia” — the 121st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.