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Luisa vs Luisgustavo

American parents have registered 14,405 Luisas since 1880, against 17 Luisgustavos. Luisa is still ahead, with 294 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Luisa against Luisgustavo, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Luisa 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

Luisa has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Luisa had 218 and Luisgustavo had 12.

Side by side

  Luisa Luisgustavo
Total US births 14,40517
Most in one year 31912
Babies in 2025 294under 5
Estimated living today 12,00017
Median age today 2625
Peak year 20222000
Best rank 869th girls5,588th boys
Rank in 2025 902ndunranked
First recorded 18822000
Girls / boys 14,372 / 330 / 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.

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