Luis

Borrowed from Spanish Luis and Portuguese Luís. Doublet of Louis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /luˈiːs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

Luis

1. A male given name from Spanish.
   • 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN.

• San Luis

• Lisu, Lius, ULSI

From Spanish Luis.

Luis

1. a male given name from Spanish

Ultimately from Frankish *Hlūdawīg.

Luis m

1. (Luserna) a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Louis

   Bia hoasto? I hoazme Luis. ― What's your name? My name is Louis.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Luis

1. a male given name from Spanish Luis or French Louis

Borrowed from Old French Louis, Looïs, Luis, from Latin Ludovīcus, from Old High German *Hlūtwīg or Frankish *Hlōdowig, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud, famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”).

Compare Portuguese Luís, English Louis, Italian Luigi, German Ludwig. Doublet of Ludovico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlwis/ [ˈlwis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: Luis

Luis m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Louis

• → English: Luis
• → German: Luis
• → Chinese: 路易斯 (Lùyìsī) (transliteration)

• “Luis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish Luis.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /luˈis/ [ˈlwɪs]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: Lu‧is

Luís (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜏᜒᜐ᜔)

1. a male given name from Spanish

• usli