Luis
Luis places #144 across the country in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 292,959 bearers and counting.
What Luis carries
Luis · Teutonic
“famous war”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Luis’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Luis, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Luis since 1880
Luis peaked in 2007 at #60; #144 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Luis is most common
Among the states, Luis takes its largest share in New Mexico, 0.45% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Arizona and Texas next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Luis
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Leonardo
#91 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alejandro
#195 in 2025 · Teutonic
Arabella
#213 in 2025 · Teutonic
Caroline
#96 in 2025 · Teutonic
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with L · Teutonic names · all names
About Luis
How popular is the name Luis?
Luis places #144 across the country in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Luis mean?
The reference we cite records “famous war”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Luis?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Leonardo, Aubrey and Carlos, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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