Luis
Luis is ranked 130th among boys in 2024 (2,778 births). Its best rank was 49th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #130up 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,7780.16% of boys
- Peak year
- 20078,054 births
- Best rank
- #49in 2000
- Since 1880
- 291,974people given the name
The story in the numbers
290,440 boys have been named Luis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 8,054 births — 0.39% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 99 → 130).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 2000s alone account for 26%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 35 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,534 girls have also been given it, 0.53% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Luis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 111 | |
| 1890s | 111 | |
| 1900s | 244 | |
| 1910s | 1,023 | |
| 1920s | 3,043 | |
| 1930s | 2,806 | |
| 1940s | 3,905 | |
| 1950s | 9,791 | |
| 1960s | 15,904 | |
| 1970s | 23,967 | |
| 1980s | 37,446 | |
| 1990s | 64,751 | |
| 2000s | 74,330 | |
| 2010s | 39,070 | |
| 2020s | 13,938 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Luis was the 60th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Luis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Miguelpeak 2007
- Marcospeak 2001
- Gustavopeak 2000
- Fernandopeak 2006
- Marcopeak 2005
- Eduardopeak 2001
- Gerardopeak 2000
- Octaviopeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.