Luis

“Variant of Louis — Famous in battle” — Frankish via French origin

Boy's name · #144 in the US (2025) · 2000s

Luis has appeared in US records since 1880 — best rank #49 (2000) · 292,959 babies named Luis all-time · 1 in 690 boys born in 2025.

Around the world: #26 in Austria (2025) · #36 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #52 in Spain (2024) · #84 in Switzerland (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 42 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Luises

Luis Suárez — Uruguayan association football player
Luis Buñuel — Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)
Luis Walter Alvarez — American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
Luis Enrique — Spanish footballer and manager
Luis de Góngora — Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)

Among 8,837 notable people named Luis:

Lawyers & judges appear 1.42× more often than among typical names — e.g. Luis Moreno Ocampo, Argentine jurist.

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