Luz

Where Luz comes from

The dictionaries list Luz as a given name — a female given name from Spanish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Spanish
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1938
    Luz Marina Zuluaga born
    Colombian beauty queen
  3. 1958
    Luz Casal born
    Spanish singer
  4. 1972
    Peak, #454
    411 babies named Luz — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Luz Casal · Spanish singer, born 1958
  • Luz Marina Zuluaga · Colombian beauty queen, 1938–2015
  • Luz Elena González · Mexican actress, born 1974
  • Luz Gabás · Spanish novelist, born 1968
  • Luz Machado · Venezuelan writer, 1916–1999

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.