Luigi
Luigi was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,554 among boys’ names; 4,305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,270 Americans named Luigi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 20 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Luigi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Luigi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Luigi is “a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis.”
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.
/luˈiːd͡ʒi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Luigi?
#2,554 among boys’ names, 2025
Luigi rose from #2,889 in 2015 to #2,554 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 30.4 per million.
80 babies in 1969, the peak
Luigi peaked in 1969, when 80 boys were given it, #858 among boys’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,554 | 30.4 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,695 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,202 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,035 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,546 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,106 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,127 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,419 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,868 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,097 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (120)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,889 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,477 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,692 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,213 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,146 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,667 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,473 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,312 | 27.9 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,293 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,465 | 24.3 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,846 | 35.0 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,223 | 26.2 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,064 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 61 | #1,854 | 31.4 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,993 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,791 | 31.1 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,184 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 50 | #1,945 | 26.2 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,010 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,829 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,765 | 26.3 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,876 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,726 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 65 | #1,419 | 32.5 |
| 1991 | 54 | #1,576 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 66 | #1,370 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 61 | #1,399 | 30.5 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,179 | 38.1 |
| 1987 | 48 | #1,493 | 25.7 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,898 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,559 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,518 | 22.7 |
| 1983 | 49 | #1,341 | 27.3 |
| 1982 | 50 | #1,331 | 27.6 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,148 | 35.7 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,264 | 30.3 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,147 | 36.0 |
| 1978 | 45 | #1,383 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,247 | 31.0 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,217 | 32.5 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,123 | 36.5 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,163 | 32.4 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,086 | 35.9 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,078 | 35.2 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,039 | 35.1 |
| 1970 | 72 | #947 | 38.7 |
| 1969 | 80 | #858 | 44.7 |
| 1968 | 60 | #945 | 34.5 |
| 1967 | 60 | #940 | 34.4 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,065 | 26.9 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,120 | 24.2 |
| 1964 | 58 | #997 | 29.1 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,073 | 25.1 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,328 | 16.9 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,217 | 20.2 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,390 | 15.5 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,352 | 15.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #1,666 | 10.8 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,152 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,443 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,102 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,273 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,156 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,803 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,881 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,934 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,185 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,181 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,258 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,818 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,592 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,241 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,634 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,163 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,755 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,730 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,143 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,809 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,936 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,346 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,171 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,310 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,059 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,973 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,551 | 21.0 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,548 | 21.4 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,369 | 26.2 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,364 | 26.6 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,289 | 28.8 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,351 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,280 | 29.1 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,149 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,151 | 35.8 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,261 | 30.9 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,218 | 33.8 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,436 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,330 | 28.6 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,058 | 43.2 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,231 | 33.7 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,009 | 47.1 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,067 | 44.3 |
| 1913 | 28 | #943 | 54.6 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,160 | 39.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,658 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,089 | 51.5 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,312 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,159 | 47.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,177 | 45.3 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,096 | 48.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,423 | 33.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Luigi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Luigi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 120 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Luigi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Luigi, and how old are they?
3,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 4,305 Americans ever recorded as Luigi. The median Luigi alive today is 35 years old; half are between 20 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 5,993 people named Luigi (19 women and girls, 5,974 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 803 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 798 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 532 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Luigi born?
The states with the most babies named Luigi are New York, California and New Jersey, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,190 | #1,674 | 3.7× |
| California | 358 | #2,116 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 210 | #1,125 | 1.6× |
| Massachusetts | 159 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 127 | #1,426 | 0.8× |
| Rhode Island | 99 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 61 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 40 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Luigi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Luigi is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Luigi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Luigi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Luigi and names like it
- Compare Luigi and DomenicoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLuigi peaked in 1969.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Luigi since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Luigi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Luigi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Luigi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.