Luz
Luz is a girl's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 463rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 838th. About 26,000 Luzes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Luz boys named Luz
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,805
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1999
- Best rank
- 463rd
- Rank in 2025
- 838th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 27,874 / 931
How old the living Luzes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,805 babies given the name since 1886, about 26,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 5,500 of them are children and 2,200 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 Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Luzs
- Luz Long (1913–1943)German long jumper
- Luz Casal (born 1958)Spanish singer
- Luz Marina Zuluaga (1938–2015)Colombian beauty queen
- Luz Elena González (born 1974)Mexican actress
People named Luz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Luz is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Luz is most concentrated in Arizona (2.8×), Texas (2.8×), California (2.8×), New York (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1999
The most popular girls’ names the year Luz peaked:
Luz elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Luz | 710 | 894th |
| Belgium girls | Luz | 225 | 501st |
| Switzerland girls | Luz | 66 | 736th |
| England and Wales girls | Luz | 23 | 4,063rd |
| France boys | Luz | 5 | 6,173rd |
| Poland girls | Luz | 2 birth registrations | 724th |
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.
Luz: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Luz | 33 | 0.003% | 652nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Luz | 28 | 0.006% | 337th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Luz | 5 | 0.008% | 118th |
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.
Luz: rank by region
In 2025, Luz was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Luz | 484 | 10 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Luz appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (269th) and Province of Antwerp (308th).
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.
Luz 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 girls | Luz | 26 | 42 |
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 Luz lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,442 women called Luz were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Luz | 172 | 1.084 | 162 |
| Lugo | Luz | 153 | 0.912 | 182 |
| Pontevedra | Luz | 241 | 0.491 | 270 |
| Cuenca | Luz | 34 | 0.344 | 331 |
| Albacete | Luz | 59 | 0.303 | 323 |
| Coruña, A | Luz | 174 | 0.294 | 352 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 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
Luz 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.