Luiz
Luiz is a boy's name that peaked in 2000, when it was the 1,208th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,848th. About 3,000 Luizes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Luiz
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,349
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 1,208th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,848th
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Luizes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,349 babies given the name since 1915, about 3,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 640 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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.
Notable Luizs
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 1945)president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 and since 2023
- David Luiz (born 1987)Brazilian association football player
- Luiz Felipe Scolari (born 1948)Brazilian association football player and manager
- Luiz Gustavo (born 1987)Brazilian association football player
- Luiz Adriano (born 1987)Brazilian association footballer
- Douglas Luiz (born 1998)Brazilian association football player
- Luiz Guilherme da Conceição Silva (born 1986)Brazilian association football player
- Luiz Henrique (born 2001)Brazilian footballer
People named Luiz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Luiz is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Luiz is most concentrated in California (5.6×), Texas (3.3×), Florida (1.5×), New York (0.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Luiz peaked:
Luiz elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Luiz +2 spellings | 333 | 486th |
| France boys | Luiz | 320 | 1,756th |
| Switzerland boys | Luiz | 103 | 672nd |
| England and Wales boys | Luiz | 71 | 2,546th |
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.
Luiz: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Luiz | 100 | 0.008% | 479th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Luiz | 2 | 0.000% | 777th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Luiz | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
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, Luiz is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Luiz: rank by region
In 2025, Luiz was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Luiz | 714 | 7 |
| Flanders | Luíz | 806 | 6 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luiz appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (Luìz, 259th) and Province of Antwerp (Luíz, 299th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Luiz by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Luiz 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 | Luiz | 13 | 19 |
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.
Related names
Luiz 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.