Luís
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
/luˈis/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Luís is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 31(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 54
- PEPeru≈1 in 60
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Luís itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #35 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 632 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Luis in MX Mexico, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 3 more and Lüïs in GT Guatemala.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Luís counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #4 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | 16K | Luis | 315 |
| BR Brazil | #15 | 1,335,098as Luiz | 1 in 159 | 1.3M | Luis | 267 |
| CO Colombia | #6 | ≈970,000 est. | ≈1 in 54 | 594 | Luis | 246 |
| PE Peru | #3 | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 60 | 557K | Luis | 190 |
| EC Ecuador | #2 | 539,474 | 1 in 31 | 539K | Luis | 157 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 61 | 494K | Lüïs | 152 |
| CR Costa Rica | #1 | 83,998 | 1 in 61 | 84K | Luis | 173 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; RENAP — annual births; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Luís de Camõesb. 1524PT16th-century Portuguese poet
- Luís I of Portugalb. 1838PTKing of Portugal from 1861 to 1889
- Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
- Luís Montenegrob. 1973PTPortuguese politician (1973–), the 199th prime minister of Portugal (2024–)
- Decob. 1977BRnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1977)
- André Villas-Boasb. 1977PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football manager (born 1977)
- Luís Boa Morteb. 1977PTPortuguese footballer
- Luís Fabianob. 1980BRBrazilian footballer
- Filipe Luís Kasmirskib. 1985BRBrazilian football coach and former association footballer
- Luís Netob. 1988PTPortuguese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 936K | #35 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Luís mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Luís?
- In Portuguese /luˈis/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Luís have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Luís in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luis.
- Where is Luís most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luís is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 31 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Luís?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 539,474 people named Luís in 2024, about 1 in 31 residents.
- How common is Luís compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Luís is the 4th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Luís?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lu%C3%ADsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luís” — the 4th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.