Given name & surname · also Old French
Luís
“loud, famous”
Luís is a masculine given name from Old French, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Luís goes back to Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, meaning “loud, famous.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Luís comes from Old French, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old French Louis, from Latin Ludovīcus, from Old High German *Hlūtwīg, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud, famous”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Luís’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Luís has a diminutive in Lula. In Portuguese usage, Luís shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Luis. In Portuguese usage, Luís has a conventional equivalent in the French form Louis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Luís has relatives in 35 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
37 related names in 35 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 43
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Luiscognate · Spanish, English
- Louiscognate · French, English
- Lewisequivalent
- Loiscognate · Galician
- Luigicognate · Italian
- ClovisFrench
- Aloysiusequivalent
- Ludwigcognate · German
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- LuiHawaiian
- Ludovicodoublet · Portuguese
- Ludvikequivalent
- LudvigSwedish, Norwegian Bokmål
- LudovicRomanian
- LudwikPolish
- Loeizequivalent
- Loïckequivalent
- Alviseequivalent
- Chlodwigequivalent
- Loïcequivalent
- Luicicognate · Sicilian
- Luísafeminine form
- ЛюдовикUkrainian
- ЛюдвигRussian
- LoísOccitan
- LiudvikasLithuanian
- LudvigsLatvian
- LudovicusLatin
- ルイJapanese
- LúðvíkIcelandic
- LughaidhIrish
- LajosHungarian
- Lodewijkcognate · Dutch
- ΛουδοβίκοςGreek
- LudvíkFaroese, Czech
- LuizoEsperanto
- LuisoEsperanto
- ĽudovítSlovak
- 路易Chinese
- LluísCatalan
- লুইসBengali
- LuigjAlbanian
- Aloísiodoublet · Portuguese
- Clóvisdoublet · Portuguese
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Luís
- Luís de Camões16th-century Portuguese poet1524–1580
- Luís FabianoBrazilian footballerborn 1980
- Luís I of PortugalKing of Portugal from 1861 to 18891838–1889
- André Villas-BoasPortuguese association football manager (born 1977)
- Luís MontenegroPortuguese politician (1973–), the 199th prime minister of Portugal (2024–)
- Luís NetoPortuguese association football playerborn 1988
- Luís Boa MortePortuguese footballerborn 1977
- PizziPortuguese association football player (born 1989)
- Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of PortugalPortuguese crown prince (1887-1908)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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“loud, famous” · “battle”
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Lávus
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Leitz
“tribe, people”
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“to dare”
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