| Pronunciation | Spanish: [ˈlwis] Portuguese: [luˈiʃ, lwiʃ, luˈis, lwis] |
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| Gender | Male |
| Other gender | |
| Feminine | [[Luis]
| meaning = Famous warrior | region = United States | language = Spanish, [English language|Portuguese]] (Luís), [[]] |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Luís, Luiz |
| Pet form(s) | Luis, Luisinho, Lucho |
| Related names | Alois, Clovis, Lewis, Louis, Ludovic, Ludovico, Ludvík, Ludwig, Luigi, Lajos |
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name Hludowig or Chlodovech. Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: Luís (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, Lluís in Aragonese and Catalan, while Luiz is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil.