# Luz (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/luz/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 28,805 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 931 / 27,874 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 23, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 301 | 870 |
| 2012 | 307 | 869 |
| 2013 | 288 | 893 |
| 2014 | 241 | 1,067 |
| 2015 | 283 | 961 |
| 2016 | 264 | 1,002 |
| 2017 | 254 | 1,023 |
| 2018 | 260 | 1,004 |
| 2019 | 297 | 898 |
| 2020 | 250 | 1,010 |
| 2021 | 245 | 1,036 |
| 2022 | 288 | 945 |
| 2023 | 321 | 844 |
| 2024 | 377 | 747 |
| 2025 | 324 | 839 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | 9,028 |
| 2003 | 8 | 8,328 |
| 2004 | 15 | 5,401 |
| 2005 | 7 | 9,744 |
| 2006 | 9 | 8,479 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12,002 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,574 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,567 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,707 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,598 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,573 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,633 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,363 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,448 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,820 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Luz

- Luz Marina Zuluaga, Colombian beauty queen (1938–2015)
- Luz Rivas, American politician
- Luz Cipriota, Argentinian actor
- Luz del Fuego, feminist, naturist, ballerina, striptease artist (1917–1967)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.