Fun Facts About the Name Lui
- 164 babies named Lui: U.S. records list 164 babies given the name Lui from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Lui Mean?
Lui is a form of the name Louis, and it carries Louis's meaning. The name goes back through Old French Looïs and Latin Ludovicus to a Frankish name, Hlūdwig, built from two elements: *hlūd, "famous, renowned" (the source of English loud), and *wīg, "battle, fight." The compound means "famous in battle" or "renowned warrior." The same Frankish name also lies behind Ludwig and Clovis; those are close relatives of Louis, not separate roots.
Lui itself is the shape the name took when it entered languages that drop a final s and avoid certain consonant clusters. In Hawaiian and Samoan, for example, Louis was nativized as Lui. Separately, Lui also appears as a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surnames 呂 (Lǚ) and 雷 (Léi); that is a surname with its own Chinese history and is not related to Louis.
Lui Name History & Origins
The Frankish ancestor of Louis, Hlūdwig, was borne by the Merovingian king Chlodovech, written in Latin as Chlodovicus and known in English as Clovis I, who ruled the Franks until his death in 511. Latin Ludovicus developed into Old French Looïs and then Louis, and the name became traditional in the French royal house: Louis the Pious (died 840), Louis IX, and many later kings carried it, which helped spread the name into other European languages in translated forms.
Because the French name traveled with explorers, traders, and missionaries, it was also taken into languages far from Europe. In Hawaiian and Samoan, Lui is the customary form: the first consonant and the vowels were kept, and the final s was dropped, since these languages generally end syllables in vowels. Used this way, Lui is a given name rather than a translated word, and it stands alongside the many other European personal names that were reshaped to fit Polynesian sound patterns during the nineteenth century.
How Popular is the Name Lui?
Lui has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2021. Its best rank was #5,469 in 2021.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,393 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #9,492 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #13,407 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #9,518 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #5,469 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2019 | #9,408 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #10,330 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #11,628 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #8,558 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #6,923 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #13,283 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #11,605 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #13,451 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #6,456 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #8,537 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2007 | #7,953 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2005 | #10,954 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #12,482 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #10,051 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #8,574 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #8,968 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Lui Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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