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Luis

Boys' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~272,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#144 among boys
Births in 2025
2,482 294,500 since 1880
Typical age
27 years, median

Luis popularity over time

Luis rank by birth year, 1880–2025Luis ranked #526 in 1880 and #144 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #49, in 2000.#100#1,000#144best #49 in 200018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

2007 is the peak year for Luis, with 8,066 births. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. It has held a top-100 place in 35 separate years.

The 2025 position is #144, on 2,482 births. The ten-year change is -34%.

Babies named Luis per yearPeaks at 8,066 births in 2007.8,066 in 2007018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Luis?

Roughly 272,800 Luiss are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 294,500 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Luis?

Median age among living Luiss: 27. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Luis a millennial-era name.

Your Luis

Ages of living people named LuisHalf of living Luiss are older than 27 and half younger.median 27020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Luis is most common

New Mexico uses the name 3.1× as often as the country as a whole. Arizona, Texas and California follow.

Where Luis is used more than average5 states use the name Luis more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: 1.8× the national rateNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.9× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 2.9× the national rateAZNew Mexico: 3.1× the national rateNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 2.4× the national rateTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Luis is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Mexico 332 3.1×
Arizona 1,529 2.9×
Texas 7,023 2.4×
California 6,225 1.9×
Nevada 348 1.8×

Luis in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Luis ranked #639 in 2025 on 57 births. That is 34% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Luis comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Luis and Portuguese Luís. Doublet of Louis, Luigi.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Luis

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Luis Suárez Uruguayan association football player 1987 114
Luis Buñuel Spanish-Mexican filmmaker 1900–1983 94
Luis Walter Alvarez American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor 1911–1988 83
Luis de Góngora Spanish Baroque lyric poet 1561–1627 64
Luis Fonsi Puerto Rican singer 1978 56
Luis Lacalle Pou 42nd President of Uruguay 1973 53
Luis Antonio Tagle Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (1957-) 1957 53
Luis Muriel Colombian association football player 1991 50
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Luis

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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