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Louise

Pronounced /luːˈiːz/

Rank in 2024
#538
Born in 2024
559
Peak year
1921 · #22
Origin
French
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 559 girls were named Louise, about 1 in every 2,886.
  • It peaked in 1921 with 9,180 babies, ranked #22.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 335,882 girls have been named Louise since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Louise per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 7.7
    Greatest
  2. 4.2
    Silent
  3. 1.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 157,704 babies, 7.71 per 1,000. Silent: 87,395 babies, 4.23 per 1,000. Boomers: 48,129 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,854 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,699 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,789 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,472 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From French Louise, the feminine form of Louis.

  • A female given name from French.
Origin
French
Say it
/luːˈiːz/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Louise, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoySteady

    Louisa

    Rank
    #733
    Born '24
    383
    Origin
    Germanic
    1880peak 20212024
  • GirlBoyRising

    Luisa

    Rank
    #869
    Born '24
    310
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20222024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Lise

    Rank
    #16,271
    Born '24
    5
    Origin
    French
    1880peak 19592024