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Luis

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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
Babies named Luis, by year of birthboys
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Luis
1880s111
1890s111
1900s244
1910s1,023
1920s3,043
1930s2,806
1940s3,905
1950s9,791
1960s15,904
1970s23,967
1980s37,446
1990s64,751
2000s74,330
2010s39,070
2020s13,938

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.

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.