Luigi
About 4,305 American babies have been named Luigi since 1900, most of them around 1969. In 2025 it ranked 2,539th. About 3,300 Luigis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Luigi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,305
- Estimated living today
- 3,300
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1969
- Best rank
- 856th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,539th
- First recorded
- 1900
How old the living Luigis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,305 babies given the name since 1900, about 3,300 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 760 of them are children and 190 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Luigis
- Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet
- Luigi Galvani (1737–1798)Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918–2012)9th President of Italy
- Luigi Einaudi (1874–1961)(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
- Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)Italian composer and cellist
- Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)Italian Classical and Romantic composer
- Luigi Di Maio (born 1986)Italian politician
- Luigi Di Biagio (born 1971)Italian association football player and manager
People named Luigi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Luigi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Luigi is most concentrated in Rhode Island (11.3×), New York (6.4×), New Jersey (3.2×), Massachusetts (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1969
The most popular boys’ names the year Luigi peaked:
Luigi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Luigi | 36,674 | — |
| France boys | Luigi | 4,595 | 429th |
| England and Wales boys | Luigi | 261 | 1,033rd |
| Belgium boys | Luigi | 259 | 505th |
| Switzerland boys | Luigi | 199 | 355th |
| Italy girls | Luigi | 121 | — |
| Poland boys | Luigi | 21 birth registrations | 432nd |
| Ireland boys | Luigi | 6 | 785th |
| Scotland boys | Luigi | 4 | 274th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Luigi: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Luigi | 120 | 0.010% | 376th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Luigi | 40 | 0.009% | 320th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Luigi | 38 | 0.058% | 66th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Luigi | 1 | 0.027% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Luigi is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.06% of children were given it – 37 of them.
Luigi: rank by region
In 2025, Luigi was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Luigi | 461 | 5 |
In 2023, Luigi was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Luigi | 10 | 1 |
In 2021, Luigi was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Luigi | 280 | 2 |
In 2007, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Luigi appears in the lists for Sud (9th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luigi appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (215th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Luigi among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Luigi | 10 | 28 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Luigi lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,126 men called Luigi were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Luigi | 142 | 0.266 | 383 |
| Palmas, Las | Luigi | 127 | 0.218 | 451 |
| Balears, Illes | Luigi | 83 | 0.133 | 579 |
| Málaga | Luigi | 64 | 0.073 | 812 |
| Barcelona | Luigi | 206 | 0.071 | 883 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Luigi | 60 | 0.060 | 1,127 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Luigi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.