Entry № 6119 · Latin origin

Luz Luz — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LOOTH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Light"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "light".

Luz is from the Spanish Luz — light — referring to the Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Light (Nuestra Señora de la Luz). Luz is one of the Spanish feminine Marian-devotion names — central to traditional Spanish + Latin American Catholic heritage. 1722, Palermo Sicily). Spanish + Latin American feminine name.

Light — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Luz
Transliteration
Luz
Pronunciation
/ luːθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Luz stands.

Luz does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Luzs before her.

Real people
Luz Casal
Spanish-Galician pop-rock + Piensa en mí Almodóvar.
born 1958
In fiction
Luz (Nuestra Señora)
Spanish Our Lady of Light.

Names connected to Luz.

The number behind Luz.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Luz reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.