Meaning of the nameLuís

Luís is a spelling of the name Luiz, which means “from the Germanic elements 'high, renowned' and 'battle'”.

Meaning

“from the Germanic elements 'high, renowned' and 'battle'”

Meaning of the name Luiz, of which Luís is a spelling.

People (2022): 838,237
Rank in Brazil: #16
Median age: 32 years
2010 Census: 935,905; people

Luís in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Luís, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (146,240 people).

4,391 women 833,846 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Luís is most common

States with the highest share of people named Luís in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Maranhão 0.828%
Piauí 0.712%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.692%
Roraima 0.487%
Ceará 0.472%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	199,648	0.450%
Rio Grande do Sul	75,304	0.692%
Minas Gerais	70,185	0.342%
Rio de Janeiro	66,950	0.417%
Maranhão	56,084	0.828%
Bahia	49,090	0.347%
Paraná	45,864	0.401%
Ceará	41,514	0.472%
Santa Catarina	26,543	0.349%
Pará	26,371	0.325%
Pernambuco	26,043	0.288%
Goiás	23,849	0.338%
Piauí	23,280	0.712%
Mato Grosso	12,175	0.333%
Paraíba	11,966	0.301%
Mato Grosso do Sul	11,394	0.413%
Amazonas	10,713	0.272%
Distrito Federal	10,442	0.371%
Rio Grande do Norte	9,168	0.278%
Alagoas	9,121	0.292%
Espírito Santo	8,814	0.230%
Sergipe	6,678	0.302%
Tocantins	6,399	0.423%
Rondônia	3,579	0.226%
Roraima	3,102	0.487%
Acre	2,231	0.269%
Amapá	1,730	0.236%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Luís

The spelling with S and an acute accent on the I is the one Wiktionary has as its main entry; IBGE records the name without the accent.

About the name Luiz

Wiktionary records Luís as an adaptation of Old French Louis, from Latin Ludovīcus, from Old High German or Frankish *Hlūtwīg, formed from Proto-Germanic elements meaning 'high, renowned' and 'battle'. Behind the Name lists the same Germanic roots, hlud and wig, and gives Luiz as the Brazilian Portuguese form. Wiktionary notes Luiz as a variant of Luís, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) records Luís among the spelling variants of Luiz. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,335,098 people named Luiz, with a median age of 37. The name is a doublet of Ludovico, Clóvis and Aloísio.

Other spellings of Luiz

Spelling	People (2022)
Luiz	1,335,098
Luís	838,237

Sources

Wiktionary: Luís · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: Luiz · en.wiktionary.org · spelling
Behind the Name: Luis · behindthename.com · spelling
Behind the Name: Louis · behindthename.com · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Luiz · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Luís

What does the name Luís mean?

Luís means “from the Germanic elements 'high, renowned' and 'battle'”, according to Wiktionary. This is the meaning of the name Luiz, of which Luís is a spelling.

How many people are named Luís in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 838,237 people with the first name Luís, which ranks it number 16 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

Is Luís a boy's or a girl's name?

Luís is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 4,391 women and 833,846 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Luís?

Luís is a name of Germanic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Luís most common?

Proportionally, in Maranhão: 0.828% of the state's population is named Luís (56,084 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Luís?

Luiz. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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