Luís
Latin at root, from a name meaning "famous warrior". Barely 100 men in Poland carry it, and the birth records show none given since 2000, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Luís Pronunciation
Luís is pronounced LOOÍS (/luís/).
What Luís means
Where Luís comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luís comes from the Latin Ludovicus, a name that Latin itself had taken in from a Germanic source. The parts underneath mean loud or famous, and war, which Polish gives as sławny wojownik and English as famous warrior. The battlefield sense is literal here. It was the origin, not a gloss attached later.
Spanish speakers wore Ludovicus down over centuries until it settled into Luis, while Portuguese kept the accent as Luís. The poet Luis de Góngora signed his verse with it in the seventeenth century. The filmmaker Luis Buñuel carried the same name into the twentieth.
In Poland the older Ludovicus took root as Ludwik, and its name-day falls on 25 August, shared with Louis IX of France. So a boy called Luís stands beside every Ludwik, Ludovico, and Louis, all of them tracing back to the one Latin form that meant a famous warrior.
How many people are named Luís
1 in 207245 men in Poland is named Luís. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3373 among male names.
Luís as a middle name
Luís is a first name for 103 men in Poland and a middle name for another 64, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 907th, between Lotar (64) and Maximiliano (64).
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#905 Jörg64
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#906 Lotar64
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#907 Luís64
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#908 Maximiliano64
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#909 Maxwell64