Luiz
Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry Luiz, so most people here will never meet one. It comes from Latin, with the sense "famous warrior".
Luiz Pronunciation
Luiz is pronounced LOO-ees (/ˈluis/).
What Luiz means
Where Luiz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Luiz descends from the Latin Ludovicus, the bookish form that carried an older Germanic name, Hludwig, into charters and church registers. The two roots inside it mean famous and war. Put together, they give the reading that follows the name everywhere: famous warrior. This is the literal sense, present from the earliest spellings.
The spelling Luiz is Portuguese and Brazilian. Poland writes the same name as Ludwik, and Latin kept it as Ludovicus. A boy called Luiz on a Polish class register stands out at once. The z at the end marks it as arriving from somewhere warmer.
The warrior in the meaning comes from old grammar. Hlūd meant loud or famous. Wīg meant battle. Medieval scribes bent both into one Latin word, Ludovicus. A child named Luiz today holds that plain sense: famous in war.
How many people are named Luiz
1 in 179380 men in Poland is named Luiz. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3092 among male names.
Luiz as a middle name
Luiz is a first name for 119 men in Poland and a middle name for another 105, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 696th, between Anzelm (105) and Mścisław (105).
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#694 Uwe106
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#695 Anzelm105
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#696 Luiz105
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#697 Mścisław105
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#698 Jeremy104