Given name & surname
Luis
“famous, renowned”
Luis is used as a given name and a surname. Luis is connected with Louis.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Luis goes back to French Louis, meaning “famous, renowned.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Luis is a variant of Louis. An origin associated with Louis is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Spanish use, Luis is used as a form of Louis.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Luis is a variant 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
Luis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 294,500
- 292,959 boys · 1,541 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 8,066 babies
- 2025
- 2,482
- #144 for boys · #12,656 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −14%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 2,475 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 144 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 13.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8,054 in 2007. It also appeared in 7 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (566). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 489,968 as a first name in 2020; 9,382 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Luis’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Luis has a diminutive in LUISITO. In Spanish usage, Luis shares a linguistic root with the English form Louis. In Spanish usage, Luis has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Lois.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Luis has relatives in 13 languages.
17 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 29
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Lewisequivalent
- Luisafeminine form
- LoisGalician
- Luigicognate · Italian, English
- Luizequivalent
- Clovisequivalent
- Aloysiusequivalent
- Ludwigcognate · German
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- Ludovicodoublet · Portuguese, Spanish
- Ludovicequivalent
- Ludvikequivalent
- Ludvigequivalent
- LudwikPolish
- Loeizequivalent
- Clóvisequivalent
- Λούηςequivalent
- Loïckequivalent
- Lewysequivalent
- Lajosequivalent
- Alviseequivalent
- Chlodwigequivalent
- Loïcequivalent
- Clodoveoequivalent
- Luíscognate · Portuguese
- Luicicognate · Sicilian
- LoísOccitan
- LluísCatalan
- KoldobikaBasque
- KoldoBasque
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Luis
- Luis SuárezUruguayan association football playerborn 1987
- Luis BuñuelSpanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)
- Luis Walter AlvarezAmerican experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
- Luís FigoPortuguese football player and philatelist (born 1972)
- Luis EnriqueSpanish footballer and managerborn 1970
- Antonio Valenciaportughez association football playerborn 1985
- Luis de GóngoraSpanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)
- Luis ArceBolivian politician and president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025born 1963
- Luis DíazColombian association football player (born 1997)
Characters named Luis: Luis Fernando Lopez (protagonist of the 2009 expansion pack Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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