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Luigi

#2,554 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Louis

Luigi has been given to 4,305 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #2,554 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Luigi, 2025

1 in 63,800

Luigi over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Luigi: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Louis

Italian and Latin

What Luigi means

Luigi is a form of Louis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Luigi is a form of Louis. Louis has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Italian Luigi. Doublet of Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig, and other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Luigi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Luigi is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian and Latin.

Luigi comes through Italian Luigi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Louis, Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig and Luici.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Luigi is pronounced /luˈiːd͡ʒi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,305 boys were recorded with the name Luigi between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1969; its best national rank was #858 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,106 in 2020 to #2,554 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,889 in 2015 to #2,554 in 2025.

How common is Luigi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 63,800
52 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,554
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
44,191 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Luigi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Luigi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luigis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Luigi was born before 1981 — so the typical Luigi is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,491
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (569).

Is Luigi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+141
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+552
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+335
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.0%
Peak was 1969 (80)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#858
1969

Spellings of Luigi

Luigi is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 95.4% against Luigi's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Luigi is used

Across 1910–2025, Luigi was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 36,274 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 6,667
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 25,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Luigi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Luigi around the world

Where Luigi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1986–1986
    #274
    in 1986
  • Ireland
    2024–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1905–2025
    #2,185
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Luigi

People whose public names include Luigi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Luigi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Luigi. Linked forms have their own page here.

LuisLewisLouisClovisLudvigLudvikLudwigLudwikLudovicLuiginoLudovicoLoïcLuísLajosLewysLluísLoeizLoïckLüìg'ClóvisLuiggeChlodwigClodoveoLudovicus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Luigi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,554
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 552
Best rank ever
#858
1969
Peak year
1969
80 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,305
Count in 2025
52

Names similar to Luigi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Luigi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Luigi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NicolaBorisCorwinEugenioDomenicoRenatoLinoJensGenoPietroLavellClaudio

Sibling names for Luigi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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