Meaning not yet researched.
Luis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,475 in 2025. Its best rank was #49 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #49 in 2000; #144 in 2025. About 99.7% of babies named Luis in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#144 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #49.
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Luis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,475 boys in 2025. Peak: #49 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 8,054 (2007).
In 2025, 2,475 US boys were named Luis, making it the 144th most common boys’ name of the year, down 14 places from #130 in 2024. That is 312 fewer than the 2,787 boys named Luis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #49, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8,054, in 2007. For comparison, it was #108 in 2015 and #252 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Luis in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 294,500 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 74,528 babies named Luis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29,670 US boys were named Luis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,555. In 2025 that was about 1 in 690 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Luis ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #50 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Louis (409,317 babies since 1880), Lois (335,594 babies since 1880), Lewis (156,636 babies since 1880) and Aloysius (5,724 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Luis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 130 | #50 | #39 |
| New Mexico | 29 | #55 | #50 |
| Texas | 566 | #67 | #45 |
| California | 497 | #75 | #58 |
| Nevada | 32 | #94 | #53 |
| Florida | 165 | #130 | #108 |
| North Carolina | 92 | #134 | #168 |
| Colorado | 51 | #141 | #105 |
| Connecticut | 25 | #149 | #85 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #151 | — |
| Oregon | 26 | #162 | #158 |
| Nebraska | 17 | #170 | #226 |
| Washington | 49 | #177 | #189 |
| New Jersey | 57 | #179 | #92 |
| Illinois | 67 | #179 | #118 |
| Oklahoma | 27 | #184 | #150 |
| Kansas | 21 | #192 | #145 |
| Massachusetts | 34 | #192 | #122 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #215 | #203 |
| Maryland | 26 | #225 | #150 |
| New York | 88 | #226 | #128 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #228 | #197 |
| Georgia | 54 | #228 | #129 |
| Alabama | 25 | #230 | #231 |
| Tennessee | 38 | #234 | #199 |
| South Carolina | 24 | #238 | #267 |
| Idaho | 11 | #244 | #332 |
| Utah | 20 | #260 | #205 |
| Indiana | 30 | #274 | #320 |
| Iowa | 14 | #286 | #223 |
| Virginia | 30 | #287 | #206 |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #287 | #185 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #303 | #309 |
| Ohio | 34 | #334 | #396 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #385 | #247 |
| Michigan | 21 | #415 | #445 |
| Kentucky | 12 | #418 | #292 |
| Missouri | 15 | #431 | #510 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #585 | #303 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,656 | 2,475 | #144 |
| 2024 | — | — | 2,787 | #130 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,922 | 2,772 | #134 |
| 2022 | — | — | 2,953 | #125 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,976 | 2,740 | #137 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,565 | 2,705 | #137 |
| 2019 | — | — | 3,198 | #119 |
| 2018 | — | — | 3,100 | #126 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,401 | 3,385 | #117 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,474 | 3,555 | #113 |
| 2015 | — | — | 3,734 | #108 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,779 | 3,905 | #99 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,201 | 4,008 | #97 |
| 2012 | — | — | 4,373 | #90 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,869 | 4,693 | #88 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,168 | 5,128 | #79 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,717 | 6,145 | #69 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,847 | 7,135 | #64 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,919 | 8,054 | #60 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,086 | 7,921 | #62 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,208 | 7,469 | #59 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,970 | 7,495 | #57 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,209 | 7,585 | #60 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,238 | 7,379 | #57 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,993 | 7,489 | #52 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,039 | 7,662 | #49 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,757 | 7,213 | #55 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,573 | 7,202 | #53 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,534 | 7,131 | #53 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,785 | 6,407 | #57 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,633 | 6,174 | #59 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,071 | 6,362 | #57 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,797 | 6,412 | #58 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,634 | 6,169 | #64 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,406 | 5,896 | #66 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,504 | 5,795 | #66 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,791 | 4,852 | #73 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,681 | 4,333 | #75 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,693 | 3,921 | #82 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,096 | 4,028 | #79 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,903 | 3,706 | #85 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,546 | 3,261 | #88 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,703 | 3,321 | #88 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,401 | 3,324 | #90 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,515 | 3,342 | #92 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,568 | 3,359 | #88 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,289 | 2,752 | #102 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,245 | 2,398 | #110 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,880 | 2,493 | #108 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,241 | 2,390 | #110 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,854 | 2,422 | #107 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,727 | 2,451 | #106 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,729 | 2,272 | #114 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,647 | 2,278 | #124 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,446 | 2,226 | #138 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,378 | 2,284 | #145 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,966 | 1,987 | #151 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,250 | 1,778 | #152 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,021 | 1,740 | #156 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,901 | 1,659 | #165 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,375 | 1,525 | #174 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,319 | 1,566 | #175 |
| 1963 | — | — | 1,455 | #202 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,421 | 1,453 | #204 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,744 | 1,409 | #204 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,828 | 1,335 | #209 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,942 | 1,282 | #217 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,479 | 1,225 | #215 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,089 | 1,114 | #226 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,106 | 1,099 | #222 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,007 | #226 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,499 | 1,018 | #217 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,171 | 884 | #228 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,746 | 775 | #241 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,233 | 730 | #249 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,057 | 656 | #252 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,016 | 673 | #248 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,020 | 590 | #275 |
| 1947 | — | — | 464 | #318 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,392 | 388 | #327 |
| 1945 | — | — | 367 | #311 |
| 1944 | — | — | 350 | #320 |
| 1943 | — | — | 318 | #346 |
| 1942 | — | — | 258 | #378 |
| 1941 | — | — | 256 | #366 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,149 | 241 | #367 |
| 1939 | — | — | 240 | #366 |
| 1938 | — | — | 311 | #310 |
| 1937 | — | — | 264 | #335 |
| 1936 | — | — | 229 | #358 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,034 | 270 | #333 |
| 1934 | — | — | 294 | #317 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,029 | 249 | #337 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,820 | 302 | #316 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,381 | 275 | #331 |
| 1930 | — | — | 372 | #297 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,997 | 377 | #289 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,511 | 322 | #314 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,194 | 372 | #300 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,322 | 315 | #319 |
| 1925 | — | — | 269 | #361 |
| 1924 | — | — | 334 | #314 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,208 | 321 | #325 |
| 1922 | — | — | 276 | #356 |
| 1921 | — | — | 241 | #390 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,717 | 216 | #401 |
| 1919 | — | — | 209 | #403 |
| 1918 | — | — | 144 | #499 |
| 1917 | — | — | 114 | #550 |
| 1916 | — | — | 105 | #559 |
| 1915 | — | — | 104 | #553 |
| 1914 | — | — | 104 | #476 |
| 1913 | — | — | 83 | #480 |
| 1912 | — | — | 76 | #453 |
| 1911 | — | — | 45 | #435 |
| 1910 | — | — | 39 | #442 |
| 1909 | — | — | 36 | #414 |
| 1908 | — | — | 38 | #378 |
| 1907 | — | — | 31 | #413 |
| 1906 | — | — | 19 | #534 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #541 |
| 1904 | — | — | 25 | #424 |
| 1903 | — | — | 20 | #480 |
| 1902 | — | — | 19 | #500 |
| 1901 | — | — | 16 | #499 |
| 1900 | — | — | 21 | #523 |
| 1899 | — | — | 14 | #538 |
| 1898 | — | — | 12 | #650 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #833 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #577 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #776 |
| 1894 | — | — | 17 | #492 |
| 1893 | — | — | 10 | #685 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #727 |
| 1891 | — | — | 9 | #679 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #789 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #608 |
| 1888 | — | — | 9 | #737 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #661 |
| 1886 | — | — | 12 | #563 |
| 1885 | — | — | 11 | #591 |
| 1884 | — | — | 14 | #516 |
| 1883 | — | — | 8 | #704 |
| 1882 | — | — | 13 | #529 |
| 1881 | — | — | 12 | #520 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #548 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).