Luy
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Luy is a surname, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In the Bahamas it is the 52nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 呂／吕 (Leoi⁵), via Spanish Luy. Doublet of Lu, Lou, Loo, and Lew.
- PHPhilippines1 in 66K◐
- USUnited States1 in 525K
- RERéunion1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.6K ◐
- Sources
- 91 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 16 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Réunion
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Luey in IN India, MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
- Cantonese呂／吕Leoi⁵●
- SpanishLuy●
From Cantonese 呂／吕 (Leoi⁵), via Spanish Luy. Doublet of Lu, Lou, Loo, and Lew.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1.7K | 3K rec. | 1 in 66K | — | Luy | 21 |
| US United States | — | ≈634 | 8.5K rec. | 1 in 525K | 669 | Luy | 91 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈619 | 826 rec. | 1 in 129K | — | Luy | 44 |
| RE Réunion | #298 | ≈226 | 223 rec. | 1 in 3.5K | — | Luy | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈112△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 75K | 129 | Luy | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 | 387 rec. | 1 in 342K | — | Luy | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈70 | 329 rec. | 1 in 364K | — | Luy | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈52 | 326 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | — | Luy | 18 |
| BS Bahamas | #52 | ≈37 | 183 rec. | 1 in 9.1K | — | Luy | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈21 | 46 rec. | 1 in 289K | — | Luy | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈10 | 24 rec. | 1 in 270K | — | Luy | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈9 | 7 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 10 | Luy | 3 |
Roughly 1.7K people in Philippines bear this name (about 1 in 66K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English7.5K52%
- Spanish4.4K31%
- German1K7%
- French5174%
- Vietnamese3412%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 7,542 | 52% |
| Spanish | 4,448 | 31% |
| German | 1,025 | 7% |
| French | 517 | 4% |
| Vietnamese | 341 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 2 |
| 1901 | 5 |
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1921 | 7 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1971 | 3 |
| 1981 | 24 |
| 1991 | 25 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- André Luyb. 1927CHSwiss organist and musicologist (1927-2005)
- Wolfgang Luyb. 1949DEGerman university teacher
- Vicente Luyb. 1961ARArgentine poet
- Jörg Luyb. 1966DEGerman philosopher
- Marc Luyb. 1971DEGerman demographer
- Carlos Luy Montejob. 1971PEPeruvian engineer
- Alex O'Doghertyb. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor musician comedian
- Karen Luy de Aliagab. 1979PEPeruvian writer
- Jean-Sébastien Luyb. 1988CHSwiss fencer
- Burkhard LuyDEresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 669 | #36,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 667 | #34,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 521 | #39,678 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 286 | #27,525 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 246 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 230 | #21,923 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 220 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 163 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 141 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 137 | #15,149 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 129 | #9,046 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 128 | #32,202 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Luy?
- We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Luy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Luy have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Luy in the Philippines, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luy.
- Where is Luy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Luy is densest in Réunion — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Luy compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Luy is the 52nd most common surname of 3,374 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Luy mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 呂／吕 (Leoi⁵), via Spanish Luy. Doublet of Lu, Lou, Loo, and Lew.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luy” — the 52nd most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.