Given name & surname
Luigi
“loud; famous”·“battle”
Luigi is used as a given name and a surname. Luigi is connected with Louis.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Luigi is built from elements meaning “loud; famous” and “battle”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In Italian use, Luigi is a vernacular form of Louis. An origin associated with Louis is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian use, Luigi is used as a form of Louis.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In Italian use, Luigi is a vernacular form of Louis. The history of Louis gives this family its wider story. Louis has a history of use among French royal or aristocratic families.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Luigi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,305
- 4,305 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 80 babies
- 2025
- 52
- #2,554 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +13%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 52 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,554 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 12.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 80 in 1969. In 2025, Florida had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (8). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,993 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Luigi’s family of names
In Italian usage, Luigi has a diminutive in Gigi. In Italian usage, Luigi shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Luis. Luigi has a related form in Louis.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Luigi has relatives in 12 languages.
35 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 22
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Louisvariant · French, English
- Gigidiminutive · Italian
- Ludovicovariant · English, Italian
- Luisevariant · Italian
- Loisevariant · Italian
- Aloisevariant · Italian
- Luisovariant · English, Italian
- Clodoveovariant · English, Italian
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- Alvisevariant · English, Italian
- Aloisiovariant · English, Italian
- Aligivariant · English, Italian
- D'Aloisiovariant · Italian
- Di Lisiovariant · Italian
- De Lisiovariant · Italian
- De Lisivariant · Italian
- De Luigivariant · Italian
- Loisivariant · Italian
- Luisivariant · Italian
- Lovisevariant · Italian
- Lovisivariant · Italian
- Luvisivariant · Italian
- Aluigivariant · Italian
Spellings & scripts 8
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Luiscognate · Spanish, English
- LouiseFrench
- Loiscognate · Galician
- Clovisequivalent
- AloysiusEnglish
- Ludwigcognate · German, English
- Ludvikequivalent
- Ludvigequivalent
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See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Luigi
- Luigi PirandelloItalian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet (1867-1936)
- Luigi GalvaniItalian physician, physicist, and philosopher1737–1798
- Luigi Einaudi(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
- Louis I of Spainking of Spain1707–1724
- Luigi BoccheriniItalian composer and cellist (1743–1805)
- Luigi Di MaioItalian politician (born 1986)
- Ciriaco De MitaItalian politician (1928–2022)
- Luigi Di BiagioItalian association football player and managerborn 1971
- Luigi CadornaItalian general (1850-1928)
Characters named Luigi: Luigi (fictional video game character from the Mario franchise).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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