Luis

Where Luis comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Luis and Portuguese Luís. Doublet of Louis and Luigi.
— Wiktionary's entry for Luis
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1900
    Luis Buñuel born
    Spanish-Mexican filmmaker
  3. 1987
    Luis Suárez born
    Uruguayan association football player
  4. 2000
    Peak, #49
    7,662 babies named Luis — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #108.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Luis Suárez · Uruguayan association football player, born 1987
  • Luis Buñuel · Spanish-Mexican filmmaker, 1900–1983
  • Luis Walter Alvarez · American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor, 1911–1988
  • Luis de Góngora · Spanish Baroque lyric poet, 1561–1627
  • Luis Díaz · Colombian association football player, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.