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Luigi vs Luisgustavo

American parents have registered 4,305 Luigis since 1880, against 17 Luisgustavos. Luigi is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luigi against Luisgustavo, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luigi Luisgustavo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Luigi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Luigi had 61 and Luisgustavo had 12.

Side by side

  Luigi Luisgustavo
Total US births 4,30517
Most in one year 8012
Babies in 2025 52under 5
Estimated living today 3,30017
Median age today 3425
Peak year 19692000
Best rank 856th boys5,588th boys
Rank in 2025 2,539thunranked
First recorded 19002000
Girls / boys 0 / 4,3050 / 17

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Luigis alive today are over 34; half the Luisgustavos are over 25. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Luigi and Luisgustavo.